Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

Everything happens

...Sigerius realized that every academic looked like every other academic." - Bonita Avenue, p.49

Strategy without execution is hallucination.

The controlled freak-out is a beautiful thing. (Ephesians 4:26)

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.

Sometimes minor details can have a huge impact. If you don't devote 100 percent of your efforts to every detail, you immediately run into difficulties.

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.