I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

A Christian’s mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community

... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.

He told himself that he could die some other time, in some other place.

The eternal struggle between failure and fortune is a fight not between mortal enemies but sparring partners. So fortune is improved by failure, and the reverse is also true.

The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

We have a professional relationship [with Chancellor Angela Merkel].2016 is the year of the German-Russian youth exchange, so the relations are moving on.