Tom Shadyac

I think laughter is a sacred act.

One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

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

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

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.

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.

I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.

I've been called crazy many times before.

My dad's half-Lebanese, my mom is full Lebanese. I'm three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-Lebanese.

I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.

We are what make up society.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.

Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.