I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too.

It's very painful to love someone who is wrestling with either an addiction or a mental illness because you want the best for them. And it seems so hard, and it's frustrating.

The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent.

It’s good to have obstacles and difficulties, and to fail and have things not go the way you want. And then have to figure out how to keep moving forward.

When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children - everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is - shopping.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.

Janet Jackson is an icon, I've been honored to meet her a few times, working with her would be amazing.

Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.

be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

On most things except witch trials, Virginia will always have been first.

Every question does not deserve an answer.