I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.

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

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

The investigation of consciousness has come to be regarded suspiciously by most smart people and by most scientists. That's a legacy that began with the Inquisition, which considered non-Christian spiritual inquiry as blasphemous.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.