If it is solely an evolutionary convenience, there is really no such thing as good or evil.
Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
Just because I make films doesn't mean I think they're great. I just make them and then when I'm done with them I'm just a filmgoer like I always am. They're all lessons. I'm still in film school, honestly. And this one is just a dry run for whatever the next one is.
Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
I am convinced that God Himself is tampering with the economic system of the world to reduce us back to Him.
I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.
To the families of special needs children all across this country I have a message for you: for years you have sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons and daughters, and I pledge to you that if we're elected, you will have a friend, an advocate, in The White House.
Life is too short for reading inferior books.