Until you are convinced of God’s incredible love for you, you will continue looking for replacement love everywhere but in the heart of Christ.
We slay the Love Idol at the site of the Crucifixion, nailing it to the cross.
Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
God gives His toughest battles to His strongest soldiers.
I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they’re boys or girls.
If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you’ve got to make your characters relatable and genuine.
Don’t lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of NOs to any YES. And that’s OK.
I’m still the person who naively thinks if I can imagine it, I can have it.
When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.
People are funny. They often don’t mean to be, and that’s what makes it even more endearing.
The philosophy I always have is what’s the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can’t read why the shot’s there, what is the story trying to say?
With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you’re constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.
I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.
We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that’s much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.
I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.