If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

If there is a heaven, it must be here on earth because the earth is so beautiful.

The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others.

Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.

The weight of wait.

No matter how deep the whale swims, it will always surface.

Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

Whenever I do get to look out, it is glorious. Even the stars have a special brightness.

I gravitate towards anything that has a grain of comedy to it.

I'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of it. That's kind of how I think about it.

If you accept the idea that photographers, or some of them, are actually artists, then you have to look at their work less as a document of something than as a personal vision of the world.