I think Jennifer Lawrence is that inside of herself. As long as I've known her she's been both 10 years old and 50 years old. And we've watched her grow up since she walked on "Silver Linings Playbook" as a 20-year-old and had not been - "Hunger Games" had not come out. And I've watched her have to take on and deal with a great deal of attention and resources and people.

I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.

I think that everybody does hustle in order to survive. That doesn't mean lying - it's more about how you handle situations.

It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.