My films must let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, that I love them, and that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love each other.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

There are no rules in filmmaking

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

My Advice to Young Filmmakers is This: Don't Follow Trends. Start Them!

Don't follow trends, start trends.

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.

It's for the hamster that I'm gonna buy! This is so perfect! (after opening a hamster wheel at Christmas)

You never know / What opportunity / Is going to travel to you, / Or through you.

To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.

For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.

I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.

I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.