Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

Pursuit of passion, dream of dreamers!

It is praiseworth to be open and honest, but you must be very discriminating on where and with whom you apply that most sacred virtue.

I am sometimes asked, 'Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?' I answer: 'I am working at the roots.'

I leave to others the decision as to the good or evil tendencies of my character, but such as it is it shines upon my countenance, and there it can easily be detected by any physiognomist.

Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

The true value of a big dream is who you must grow into to live that dream.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.