My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own.

Persistence and discipline. Without those two, you have nothing, no matter how talented you are.

I don't think I'm ever afraid, but I doubt myself often. Because of that doubt, I constantly strive to make myself better.

Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people.

The one surefire key to victory as a Christian in this fallen world is to be filled with the Holy Spirit—that is, to be completely submitted to and empowered by him.

First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

Buffalo Bill's defunct

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me.