For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

I believe that my connection, to my higher power, is separate from everybody’s. I don’t believe that the Muslims have all the answers. I don’t believe the Christians have all the answer, or the Jews have all the answers...

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.