I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.

Where we are going is touching the invisible, invisible becoming visible...

I think a lot of good actors - for instance, Gary Sinise - have no training. His training was really entirely on his feet. I suppose you have to have an instinct for it.

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.

I'm someone who loves to play. I make films so I can have fun with the characters.

I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

Cindy is a terrific writer and has both a studied - and an intuitive - understanding of the best practices of no-hype, high results copywriting.

One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece

It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

I am too slow to be a good climber, so I film instead.