Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.

How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

I should at least die as I had lived—fighting.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

In our lives in a lot of ways it's all about fake. You've got people wanting things for fake reasons.

Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."

I think that everything changes when it goes through the Mac; it's cheap. I think people then don't pay too much importance to the take, if you can do 40 takes.

Where do you think you would be now if Jesus would not have saved you when He did.

Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.