The only way to sustain a career is to be as prolific as you can be, and open to opportunities.

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

My first job, honestly, was as a proofreader. I say that a little disparagingly, but it actually was this sort of incredible thing, where I got this job proofreading for a cable television magazine.

When a crisis occurs, I feel that one of my greatest responsibilities is to set a tone of calm no matter what the problems. Sometimes I have to fake confidence a lot. I also have to fake calm.

It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.

I came to New York, and it was a really cool time. People like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee were making their first movies, and they were making movies that were personal narratives.

There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.

I always say, what really makes a movie commercial is that it makes its money back.

I think that when you're doing an under-four-million-dollar movie, you just can't throw money at the problems.

The way to peace is not love, but Christ.

It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

You never know when someone will come into your life and change things, for good or bad, let them in. They don’t have to always stay but, human interaction is the pinnacle of life’s lessons.

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

That question in marriage is mutual submission, really - the next verse goes on: "husbands love your wife as Christ loves the Church."

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

You my friend,I will defend,and if we change well, I love you anyway.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.