Tom Shadyac
Tom Shadyac
Thomas Peter "Tom" Shadyacis an American comedian, director, screenwriter, producer, author and occasional film actor. Shadyac, who was the youngest joke-writer ever for comedian Bob Hope, is widely known for writing and directing the comedy films Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, and Bruce Almighty. In 2010, Shadyac departed from past comedic work to write, direct and narrate the documentary I Am, in which he explores his abandonment of a materialistic lifestyle following a bicycle accident in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth11 December 1958
CityFalls Church, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.
There's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks every day. Now, this is a law that's evolved over billions of years, and the law is this: Nothing in nature takes more than it needs.
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.
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.
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.
If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.
As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
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.
You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.