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All Quotes by author - Tom Shadyac

" As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy. "

" Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things. "

" Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism. "

" Definition is the death of discovery. "

" Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose. "

" Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done. "

" I believe in unity, as opposed to division. "

" I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically. "

" I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things. "

" I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal. "

" If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on. "

" If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind. "

" I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world. "

" I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph. "

" I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it. "

" I think laughter is a sacred act. "

" I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community. "

" I've been called crazy many times before. "

" I've never been a Hollywood dropout. "

" I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money. "

" I was raised Catholic. "

" I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt. "

" My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese. "

" Nature is an incredible cooperative. When things operate outside of that cooperative, they die off. It's a very simple rule that nature operates under. "

" One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is. "

" Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it. "

" Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful. "

" Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.' "

" Technology is not good, it's neutral. "

" The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle. "

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