My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.

It's impossible for me to lose because I won't quit!

You adapt to who you're photographing.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

I'ma make sure the family keep a decent meal, no matter what I got to do or who I got to kill.

What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.

There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film.