I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here.

I consider space to be a material. The articulation of space has come to take precedence over other concerns. I attempt to use sculptural form to make space distinct.

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

Everything we choose in life for its lightness soon reveals its unbearable weight.

The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.

Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.

The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.

Daniel?" "Yes." "Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?" "No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.

I've always loved horses. When I was younger, I competed in horse shows and did quite well.

I'm always prepared for the worst.

I've always been astonished by how wonderful he [Timur Bekmambetov] makes something look for so little. I think he shoots action like no one else.

I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.

You may not realize it, but your life has the potential to bless everyone you encounter.

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.