Tom Shadyac

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I think laughter is a sacred act.

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

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.

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.

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.