Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

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

I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!