It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Adolescence is like cactus.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

I was just surprised when my wife told me we were having a baby. I was like, Wow, that's awesome. You're going to make a great single mom.

If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.

How can you say you want to be somewhere when you're not really sure if they want you there because they're not even talking to you?

"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."

Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.