I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

To work is to feel alive.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

The people who are the worst at news, who kind of engage in what I call the World Wrestling of news, have kind of set the bar for where news is.

The strong is not the one who is physically powerful, but indeed, the one who controls himself when angry.

A news conference is a device by which the establishment keeps large numbers of reporters from covering the news every place else.