When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.

All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.

I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.

When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.

You want to try to find your heritage.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

Every neurotic is partly in the right.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

The blogosphere rewards no-holds-barred smartassery.

I feel I rise to the occasion when the pressure's on my shoulders.

If your stories are all about your products and services, that's not storytelling. It's a brochure. Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.

Some things are more important than safety.

The less literate are the first to fail and drop out of school.

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.