It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.

What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them?

Flexibility is a requirement for survival.

Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways.

Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real, Unless you find the fine line...and erase it

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

I don't have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character who's in my mind in reality.

To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.

In love, you pay as you leave.

Do not fear the shadowy places. You will never be the first one there. Another went ahead and down until He came out the other side.

If you are stimulated by what you do, you never get tired

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.

I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax.

And if anyone asks what became of me, you relate my life in all its wonder, and end it with a simple and modest "He died.