I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked.

I think everyone is the perfect owner.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

Trust God to run the universe without you.

Grant me grace to follow you into the unknown, into the next place in my journey with you. In your name, amen.

God thinks. You think. God wills. You will. God feels. You feel.

God is not intimidated by such hard and testing questions, nor is he unable to answer them. But we must come with the right kind of skepticism—not the kind that refuses to believe anything at all, but the kind that is committed to believe only what is really true.

If you hold a rose up before a man and he shuts his eyes tight and just holds out his hands and says "Here, I am ready to be persuaded; convince me by touch that your rose is red;" then you are helpless.

Guess if you can, choose if you dare.

People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because the author could always trump you with, 'I wrote it.'