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Bush was in a shithole on September 10th. 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to him.

I think it [films] was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.

Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.

The great lesson about filmmaking is never take "no" for an answer, especially if you have a lot of passion and inspiration to do something.

It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

Life just happens the way it's supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.

Just work on your craft hard - that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.

Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

It's not easy to follow Jesus' example, and if you go to church it doesn't mean you're automatically doing it.

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

I think audiences deserve the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to be surprised by them rather then just assume they'll react negatively to any new idea.

There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.

It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.

Christianity has been responsible for plenty of horror and death in the world, all supposedly in God's name.

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.