The Indians say to draw someone's portrait is to steal their soul, i am taking photographs, does it mean that i am just borrowing them?

We can only think in a language that we master.

I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.

ATLANTA NIGHTS: I haven't been this stunned since my colonoscopy.

The oppressed will always believe the worst about themselves.

In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.

It's amazing how if you turn up at a studio without an idea, a picture will take itself from momentum, and you quickly can lose control.

If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.