I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.
I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.
What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control
The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
Acting is like music and you improvise. It's like jazz, there's no rhyme or reason to it. It's not a plan. You practice to music and you just play it.
I love to read things that I'm sure won't make a movie.
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.