Zitat des Tages von Tom Shadyac:
If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.
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.
I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.
I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.
If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've never been a Hollywood dropout.
As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.
Technology is not good, it's neutral.
I believe in unity, as opposed to division.
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.
Definition is the death of discovery.
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
We are what make up society.
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.