I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in
Obviously, I'm attracted to heavier movies.
You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
It's important to me that everyone is treated with respect.
You won't find a better young actor than Jaeden Lieberher. I ended up having one of the best times with him, really. Going to work with him every day was a treat.
Kids before they're 7 or 8 are like little manic obsessives. They become completely hooked on things and they're slightly crazy.
I always want my options to be open.
If E. F. Harriman paid me what he's paying those guys to stop me from robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.
Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.
Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.