Tom Shadyac

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.

Definition is the death of discovery.

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

I've been called crazy many times before.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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.

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