List of Tom Shadyac Quotes

If You Bounce A Tennis Ball Against A Wall It Will Come Back To You The Same Way Every Time. But If You Shift The Wall A Few Degrees It Will Come Back Another Way.

If We Exchange Bombs For Bread There Will Be Less Reason For Wanting To Kill Us. I Just Want To Have The Conversation.

The Mystics Will Tell You Death Is Perfectly Safe. A Violent Act Will Beget A Violent Act; It Is Simply A Law.

My Dad's Half-lebanese, My Mom Is Full Lebanese. I'm Three-quarters Lebanese. Irish-lebanese.

Definition Is The Death Of Discovery.

I Was Always Kind Of Finding Humor To Be An Access Point To The Conversation, To A Pain Relief, If You Will. My Mother Was In A Wheelchair Since I Was Very Young, So She Was In Pain And We Used Humor.

Communism Didn't Work Because People Weren't Ready For It, It Was Corrupt, And Because It Squelched Individualism.

Look At Native Cultures - They've Lasted For Tens Of Thousands Of Years, Not Doing Everything Right. We Wouldn't Want To Emulate Them In Many Ways, But Their Basic Philosophies - Being A Part Of Nature, A Part Of A Tribe Or Group Without Elevating, Not What You Call Dominator Philosophies - They Lasted For Tens Of Thousands Of Years. It Took Us To Come And Put Them Asunder.

The Word Contentment Comes From The Word Content, Which Is What We Hold Inside - Love, Value, A Feeling Of A Life That Has Meaning Or Purpose, A Cause Greater Than Yourself That You're A Part Of. These Are The Things That Bring True Happiness. As A Culture, I Think We Need To Redefine What It Means To Be Happy.

I Have Not Walked Away From Hollywood. I'm Walking Away From The Way I Personally Did Business In Hollywood. The Budget Of Whatever Movie I Do Needs To Be Efficient; It Needs To Consider What Kind Of Resources We're Using And How To Be As Responsible As Possible.

I Am Operating Under The Philosophy That I Will Simply Use What I Need And The Rest - Even If I Still Have It Somewhere - Is Not Mine. It Is Others'. It Is For The Healing Of The Natural World. And It Is In The Process Of Returning.

I Love Frank Capra. He Believed In The Goodness Of People And One Man's Ability To Fight And Often Triumph.