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

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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. "

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

" I think laughter is a sacred act. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We are what make up society. "

" Definition is the death of discovery. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations. "

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

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