Phil Vischer Quotes

As you can see, we're about to visit our lower level which is--for the most part--full of "Mens" and "Infants".

I never swore as a kid. Honestly. Never. I never smoked a cigarette and I never tasted alcohol until I got to Bible College.

The ending of the film seems so bizarre. It is actually probably the most literal retelling of the story of Jonah from the Bible that you've ever bumped into.

That's right! You're watching the DVD! So, the coolness of what the bowing man is doing is self-evident to you!

Why does God want us to let go of our dreams? Because anything you are unwilling to let go of is an idol, and you are in sin.

The most important thing is not the work I can do for God. The most important thing is to make God the most important thing.

An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing.

Fairly early in life, I noticed my brain was weird. By that I mean that I noticed it had a way of looking at normal things from a slightly twisted angle--just twisted enough that it often made me chuckle.

This is where we store our bicycles. A lot of people ride their bikes to work here. And, of course, there has to be a robot to protect them and make sure they don't get stolen like R2D2 in episode two where he did a very bad job in protecting Princess Amidala from those worm things. But this robot is significantly more effective as a theft-deterrent system than R2D2 was in that film. That's why the bikes are here.

VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children’s videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.

In truth, I sat down in 1992 to make a kids’ show that I would want to watch with my kids. That would work for me. That would have sincerity in it, but not too much. That would mix what I loved about Monty Python and David Letterman with what I hungered for from Thomas Aquinas and Mother Theresa.

And for two years, we had this sign up saying we will finish this movie and we changed it to 'did' finish the movie.

Thanks for coming! And, I have to make another movie, now.

I'll very often just start humming my way through a scene. Say, OK the tempo should be about like this, it should pause here, it should pick up here. And very often I'll make up a little melody just to do that. About half of the little melodies in the score for Jonah are those little melodies that I made up just to use to kind of pace a scene and then we got kind of attached to them.

The impact God has planned for us doesn't occur when we're pursuing impact. It occurs when we're pursuing God.