Attention spans get very weak at the speed of light, and that goes along with a very weak identity.
Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.
That's my advice for indie filmmakers: Marry a supermodel.
It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away. . . It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.
Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make Star Wars, but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.
Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.
There has been a great proliferation of lawyers in the pat 20 years, just as there has been a proliferation of computers. But unlike computers, lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two years.
Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.
I always think the audience sometimes wants what you're not giving them.
What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.
The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.