102 Quotes by Tom Shadyac

Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.

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

I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.

I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man's ability to fight and often triumph.

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

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

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

I didn't want to hear the usual answers about what's wrong because I believe these are symptoms: global warming, genocide, hunger, poverty, war, environmental crisis. If we can identify the root cause, we can change our ways.

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.