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

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.

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

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

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.

When we set up a goal for ourselves our body start to mobilize all its strength in one direction

All life on earth is inextricably bound together in a web of mutual interdependence.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

I can't abide small talk.

By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.