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

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.

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.

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

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.

However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.

Your heart will always tell you what’s working and what’s not.