I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

I have no home but me.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

If time be of all things most precious wasting time must be the greatest prodigality since lost time is never found again.

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.

I'm pretty fast with a camera when I have to be. However, I think it's irrelevant.

Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax.

I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.

You can teach a bear to tango on a barrel but his enthusiasm and performance are limited and brief.

I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.

Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.