If you think too much in the music you are too late.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

Funny how being a grown-up didn’t make you any less glad to have a mom on the scene. Whether it was your own or someone else’s mother, it was like having the cavalry arrive.

The goal of life isn't to make lots of money. Its to make a life that means EXCLUSIVE.

Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.

If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

“He has many things I haven’t got,” said Jace. “Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination.” - Jace about Simon

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time.