That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.

The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

I think sometimes you have to handle things delicately at work or at home. You know, you can find yourself in situations that are like opening a closet filled with bowling balls that are going to fall out of it, but if you handle things graciously, then that's not going to happen.

Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.