We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an artist that you love.

Film schools are not rigorous enough. They let things get by and kids get out there and they think they are saying something and doing something.

The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.

I would not presume to say that I know anything about "The Truth," whatever that is.

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

Letting go of your desires will allow them to come to you much quicker

I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.

The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.