We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness.

If you actually read the Bible, you can see there's a whole lot more information in there than the way we interpret the Bible. Because there are single lines in the Bible where if you just take them at face-value, they don't make any sense whatsoever in the world we see, we know, and we understand.

If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing.

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

I think if there's some kind of crisis in news journalism... a crisis of credibility, then it's been created by journalists. I'm empathetic, I understand it and I see it, but I'm not sympathetic about it. If you want people to think of journalism with higher regard then do better work.