Never strive to be part of the norm. If people think you strange...CELEBRATE. Normal people try way to hard to please others and never end up pleasing themselves. Be ABnormal. It's more fun.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

I believe tears are holy, because they show us that the ice of our heart is melting.

I regard food as fuel. I am not a brunch person.

The better the script is the more you can commit, but you can only really commit with full confidence when you know the material is as strong as your level of commitment to it and it frees you up.

In terms of the way the industry operates, the studio system was such its own thing. It's so different now that it's a globalized world.

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.

There needs to be passion behind what you're doing or it's not worth it.

I just didn't want to shoot other people.

That's a stupid question,' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.' 'No, it's a philosophical question,' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).