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"Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied."
"Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know."
"I am not the kind of person I want to be."
"I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director."
"I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all."
"I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself."
"I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual."
"Nobody wants to watch perfection."
"It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood."
"I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business."
"I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do."
"I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness."
"When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure."
"Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history."
"I just want to keep making movies that hopefully makes some kids smile."
"When I walk out on the street, I want to see everybody wearing my clothes."
"If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage."
"Humility is what we want other people to have."
"I don't want to get pigeonholed, and I want to try my hand at anything that excites me. I'm not just a Disney writer."
"Hee is rich enough that wants nothing."
