I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.

Photography has saved my life, over and over again.

I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!

Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved or resolved that lust was.

In general, I wait to be approached. I want to be the one who's hunted, I want to be the one who people take interest in.

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm a pretty good judge of crazy versus sad. I prefer sad.

I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and that's great. That's better than great... it's necessary.

Every time I hear that somebody died I think of their body, on a steel table in a morgue somewhere. I think of how they can do nothing about it.

All of Christ’s philosophical ideas can be compressed into one simple phrase – Love thy neighbor.

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.

You don't have to yell at me Schiavone. I'm not blind!

Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness.

This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

My biggest fear of death is to come back reincarnated

The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.