I got a cold FEELING toward RELIGION in general. I don't think God WOULD WANT to SEPARATE families.

To work with a DIRECTOR that has emotional COMMITMENT and passion TOWARD the CHARACTERS, and the piece, and the EXPERIENCES, it only enriches your work.

And when you SEE it the FIRST time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, WORKS its way back, SOMEWHERE toward that SPOT you were at before.

Sometimes, in CERTAIN STORIES, I think we know at the outset essentially what the TONE is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is EVER in any way overtly discussed.

I TRY to make a dent in people when I can. I FIGURE people DRIFT toward liberalism at a YOUNG age, and I ALWAYS hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

Our approach was very simple. It was about CREATING a UNIVERSAL language. A SHOW that will be attractive toward every people coming from all over the world. And that was a big THING.

I THINK we do better as a COUNTRY when we go STEP by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing HEALTH CARE costs.

Orthodox Christianity, by PLAYING upon the EMOTIONS of MAN, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his MIND. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could REASON.

As we make our WAY toward the finish line that some of US have already CROSSED, I never thought I'd GET a Grammy AWARD. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest.

America is a NATION fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and FREQUENTLY punitive TOWARD its children.