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

- Tom Shadyac

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

- Tom Shadyac

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

- Tom Shadyac

I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.

- Tom Shadyac

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

- Tom Shadyac

I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.

- Tom Shadyac

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.

- Tom Shadyac

To me, 'Ace Ventura' is as scriptural and sacred as any movie I've ever done because it's childlike.

- 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.

- Tom Shadyac

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.'

- Tom Shadyac

When you do something in a nonviolent way, people will die and there will be casualties. But you're taking a different point of view that has a power.

- Tom Shadyac

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

- Tom Shadyac

I was raised Catholic.

- Tom Shadyac

I've been called crazy many times before.

- Tom Shadyac

I've never been a Hollywood dropout.

- Tom Shadyac

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

- Tom Shadyac

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

- Tom Shadyac

Technology is not good, it's neutral.

- Tom Shadyac

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

- Tom Shadyac

We are what make up society.

- Tom Shadyac