Jim Caviezel Quotes

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.

I'm a very hands-on person; I don't just want to give my name to something and not be a big part of it.

I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.

If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems.

In life, be a participant, not a spectator.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

Don't be fair, be engaged.

When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.

Dear young people, please, don’t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don’t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.

You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.

I think quite often, being on the new set is not what you expect. The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious. I don't think there are any hard-and-fast rules. I just think it really depends on your director and what the general vibe is.

The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are.

There are no bystanders in this life.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

Even if they're not reaching out to us, we're going to reach out to them anyway and involve them in a meaningful way. Because if we don't, we will fail to learn the lesson of a generation before us, that reached out for us and never let us go.

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

Don't live life as a spectator.

Everyone is equal and everyone is forced to participate; you can't just be a spectator.

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.