I don't want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.

American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.

Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

Fortunately, Hollywood is open to change. It's just a question of how to go about doing it.

What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.

When you read a book, and it's really, really beautiful, you're so engaged you forget to breathe. If you're in a car accident, and everything moves slowly, you can be shocked into the present. The past and the future disappear.

The person who understands Dharma will have the opposite reaction to a "hard" job. That person will be eager to get started, no matter what kind of work is in front of her, because she understands that she's doing God's work. And when you're working for God, nothing is too hard.