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.

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

Anything you pray for, you need to prepare for.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

I see love as an evolution of true friendship.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.