Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

I'd rather have a go at life, so there's something to talk about once we're gone.

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel ... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.

Each story has a different approach for me and I try to work with lighting that will tell you visually the story better than if it was shot in available light.