Quotes from Tom Shadyac

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.

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

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 see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.

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

Love is not always about 'everything's fine'…love is about truth. Truth and love are one in the same. It doesn't always come in a sweet little box with a bow on it.

The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.

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

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

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.

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

If we exchange bombs for bread there will be less reason for wanting to kill us. I just want to have the conversation.

Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.

Someone asked me the other day, 'What's the biggest influence on your filmmaking career?' And they started naming filmmakers. I went 'Naw, it's Jesus actually.'

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

I believe in unity, as opposed to division.

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.

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

We are what make up society.

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

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

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

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