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" 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. "

Tom Shadyac

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Culture

Business

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

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

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

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Sharing

End

" 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. "

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

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

" Definition is the death of discovery. "

" I've never been a Hollywood dropout. "

" We are what make up society. "

Tom Shadyac

Make

Society

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

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

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

Tom Shadyac

Done

Movie

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

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

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

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

" There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs. "

" 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.' "

Tom Shadyac

Day

Influence

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

Tom Shadyac

Love

Fight

" I think laughter is a sacred act. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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