Tom Shadyac

“The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.”

“I believe in unity, as opposed to division.”

“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.”

“Technology is not good, it's neutral.”

“Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.”

“Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.”

“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.”

“You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.”

“Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.”

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

“The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.”

“You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.”

“To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.”

“I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I've never been a Hollywood dropout.”

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

“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.”