If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the group. I guess we got the same charge jocks get out of sports.

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.

Miscommunication is endless.

Eagles are extinct, " grumbled Morpurgo. "Perhaps they should have attacked the sky. It betrayed them.

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed - and eventually revered.

Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.

The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.