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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power. "

" Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed. "

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

" Definition is the death of discovery. "

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

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

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

" You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond. "

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

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

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

" The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that. "

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

" 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. "

" You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave. "

" To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike. "

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

" I was raised Catholic. "

" 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. "

" We are what make up society. "

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