I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

Life is a long travel. The end of the journey is often unpredictable.

Lies are for adults who are sad in their lives.

The Glory Of God On Earth Demonstrate The Uniqueness Of Heaven

...Love Christ and put nothing before His Love. He is joy, He is life, He is light. Christ is Everything. He is the ultimate desire, He is everything. Everything beautiful is in Christ.

Procrastination can wait for Tomorrrow.

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.