Photography has always been a struggle for me to take seriously as an art form.

A lot of my inspiration is reactionary to images I see in the media.

I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.

Your self-worth is totally different from your net-worth.

Failure is a pitfall of working without a plan.

I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

I like to win at everything I do.

There is a way to touch the angels of the skies: Gaining the trust of birds!

I realized that if I wanted to truly talk about vastness and the sublime and scale and the West - recurrent themes in my overall work - I needed to engage with the vast ocean that is Los Angeles.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

Everyone has been really accepting and brought me into the family. I had a lot of fun shooting it [ Fast 8].

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.