A civilization built on dualism and war within and between persons, one that puts its most creative minds and its best engineers to sadistic work building more and more destructive weapons, is no civilization at all. It needs a radical transformation from the heart outwards. It needs to outgrow and outlaw war just as in the last century it outlawed slavery. The human race has outgrown war, but it hardly knows it yet.

I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.

Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.

Big-heartednes s is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.