In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

The entertainment is in the presentation.

In a thriller, the camera's an active narrator, or can be.

Don't dig your own grave with your knife and fork.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldnt matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.

It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Hang me if I'm guilty.

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

The media's image of us is as animals, and we were never that to me. I knew love from black folks.

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.

If we can't have the courage to tell our constituents, hey, we've got to cut back, then if we can point to something and say, I would like to vote for more benefits for you, but this balanced budget amendment or statutory spending cap or whatever the device is, is preventing me from doing it.

As coaches we usually have plenty of changes from one year to the next. Sometimes it seems like its at one position. Sometimes its across the board. But this is really a part of every year that we have in coaching in the NFL.

The Houston Astrodome was kind of a tough field.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth.

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washington, during Black Congressional Caucus Weekend, and did a panel about global warming with him. It was almost as if I switched careers for a while, and became a political activist.

I did not walk every step of the Trail of Tears at one time. Instead, over the last 20 years, I have walked various segments of it in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.

I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

My husband has some very interesting hobbies, and through him, I've learned to fly and earned my pilot's license. Together, we fly all over the United States. Since our children are all grown now, we also travel a great deal in Europe, but we take commercial flights because our plane is not really equipped to make transatlantic flights.