John Schneider

“Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you.”

“There are young people having babies every day that cannot possibly take care of them, and, as people who believe that every life is beautiful, we need to make them aware of another choice - to give that beautiful life up for adoption.”

“'Gut' was my nickname. And I was picked on terribly by many, many kids.”

“You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like 'October Baby,' or under a half million, like 'Hardflip.'”

“When I was a wee little kid, I used to watch 'Dark Shadows' all the time, so I was a Barnabas Collins fan.”

“If it's tough believing what you believe, then maybe it's time to move. But if you are someone who militantly enforces your opinion about anything, then you need to get out of town.”

“I'm a good dad and a fair husband and I work quite a bit. That takes up a fair amount of time.”

“I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.”

“At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.”

“I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.”

“When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.”

“I'm not a Christian for your benefit. I'm a Christian for my benefit, and how I walk my walk is my business, and how you walk your walk is your business.”

“When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.”

“I'm from New York, I'm 53, I have my moments when I'm a nice guy, and more frequently I have my moments where I'm a middle-aged aggravated person. For years I was always the nice guy, so in life I had to pretend to be the nice guy.”

“Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room!”

“The normal storyline of a horror film or a slasher film is the young, beautiful college folks go camping and get systematically killed by the person in a mask. So that's how it normally is.”

“It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.”

“Some people treat seeing me as if they just won a car on 'The Price is Right.' The feet get going, and the hands start flapping, and it's really quite amazing. It's a little scary: you can't have more than two or three of them at the same time because someone might get hurt. But it's great fun.”

“I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.”

“I don't know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he's in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.”