My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like “Spy Kids.”

People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa.

Consider every choice carefully, no matter how small, for it will affect the bigger decisions you make.

Christianity through the operation of the Holy Spirit affirms unity as well as variety (diversity) in the Body of Christ.

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

I use memories but I will not allow memories to use me.

You can't keep things secret in a film anymore. Once you realize the secret's out, you might as well go with it and not pretend that it's not there.

It wasn't until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.

Every time I go to Japan and meet Capcom it is like going to see the Umbrella Corporation. You ask them things and they won't give you a straight answer about anything.

While we do not need art to live, I couldn't imagine a life without it.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.