The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

The quest for knowledge is passion to study.

Stop surrounding yourself with people who engage in acts to break you and bring you down. Isn't it obvious that they are desperately seeking for some people to join them at the bottom?

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

I definitely am a Twihard!

I want to declare to you today: Jesus died to make you holy. It is possible for you to live a life without bondage to sin.

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

They can pump whatever they want into my arm but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.

Much music teaching seems more concerned with controlling the student than with encouraging the student's own impulses.