You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words.

The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students to simplify their equipment.

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

There's nothing worth photographing more than 100 yards from the car

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!

Of course, we were not promoters, we Westons, let's face it. Dad had only $300 in the bank at the end, that's all he had.

A wise person is like a lighthouse. We are looking for their lights and follow them when we are in danger.

There wasn't in the beginning. It wasn't until your kind discovered what was happening that any resistance started. That seems to be the key—knowing what’s going to happen.

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

A period of silence on your part would be welcome.

I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.

We are all geniuses when we dream.

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.

Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving . . . if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny.

A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.