If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion.

Listen to the technology; find out what it's telling you.

It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.

I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.

To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.

Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you have got to hang though together

I'm a firm believer in making it happen - no matter what 'it' is. Sometimes I feel a bit too driven - where it's all I think about. But I guess that's gotten me to where I am, so I can't complain.