There's a trick to being whatever you want to be in life. It starts with the simple belief that you are what or who you say you are.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

For years, my job was to make the movie inexpensively. And I could bring it in. What I can't control are the costs of marketing.

When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.