Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.

It's always money no matter kind of budget you have, though, it forces you to be creative and not take anything for granted.

If you pitch your movie to someone and they say, "Oh, please, don't make that. No one would see it." Do it! Because that means you may have something that's not the norm.

Create your own path. Cultivate it. It'll take time. It doesn't happen overnight. I was an actor for many years before I got behind the camera.

Securing distribution is always a battle. And to get a film released is a pretty special accomplishment.

I'm passionate about stories that have humanity, compassion and humor.

Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.

My advice on-set is to make every day better than last one. Change is good.

I don't write for a living. I live to write.

For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.

In Him is Everything. Him you must try to find.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that

I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children.

A person's level of income and their desire to give have nothing to do with one another.

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.