Making a movie is like getting married. You're like, "Am I going to marry this project? Am I ready for that kind of commitment?"

If we replaced guns with guitars, then the world would be a concert

Everyone is a little bit more close-knit and you rely on people a little bit more. The bigger the budget gets, the more everyone toes the line in their department.

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

I moved with my mom to Los Angeles for her to pursue her acting career, and she got a job casting atmosphere in some independent films.

Scheduling is always tough, no matter what the budget size is, and we had our own run-ins with that, on 'Fading of the Cries.'

Whenever I'm doing any film, I'm always just happy to have a job and I always just put 110% of myself into it.

I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.

I am no one's to be claimed, I belong to me.

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

Memories rob us of the present.

To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.

Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

A Britain which denounced the insanity of the nuclear strategy would be in a position to direct its influence at the United Nations and in the world at large, in a manner at present denied us