"I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze."

“By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.”

“May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.”

“What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they don't hold back anything. You never ever want someone to go, 'Oh I shouldn't have done that.' There isn't anything you shouldn't try. If it's terrible, who cares?”

“I always enjoyed playing ball, and it didn't matter to me whether I played with white kids or black. I never understood why an issue was made of who I played with, and I never felt comfortable, when I grew up, telling other people how to act”

“Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.”

“I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.”

“The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.”

“A lot of it comes from tiny things, like not eating barbecue sauce with my pizza at two in the morning. I think it's all a manifestation of being happy and wanting to treat myself well. The truth is, I'm not getting up an hour earlier and walking on a treadmill. I have the greatest workout partner in the world. And you don't need a gym membership for that kind of workout.”

Source : "A Mighty Heart: Jason Sudeikis Dishes on Love". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. July 17, 2013.