I was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

Any guy that refers to dating women as the hunt or being on the prowl should be evaluated for a number of conditions.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

Are all ends of life so sad?

It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Relationships change us and make us grow.

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.