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
As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.
I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.
Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
I was taught in school that I have to look out for number one. That was against everything that I intuitively felt.
You send a message in everything you do. I'm always very conscious about what ideas and what energy I put out there.
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.
If I end up homeless and penniless because of a shift in my behavior about sharing what's come to me, bring it on.
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.
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.
Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.
The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
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 second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.
I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.