102 Quotes by Tom Shadyac

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.

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

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

I don’t have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven’t changed.

I wasn’t paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

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

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.

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.

I don’t consider anything I’m doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I’m doing as just normal.