There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

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.

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

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.

Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines

When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.

Actors have to remind people that they can do different things, not just the same style of one role.

I'm a huge Obama fan. I think it's such an unbelievably great thing to have a President who's competent and not insane.

Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? Aren't we? Damned if I know.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

What if the universe were whispering in my ear at every moment?

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the First Amendment.