It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses.

When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

It's a relationship I went through that collapsed my entire view of the world in a very extreme way.

I'm just gonna make movies the best I can, do the festival thing or whatever can come. I plan on working with a lot of the same guys over and over again. I hope the majority of us can stick together.

I don’t have anger towards women. It’s the first script I wrote, I was really young. I got older. It’s told from an angry point-of-view. Young men are crazy strange emotional beings.

I'm from Wisconsin; well, that's where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.

I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.

I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

I am a mechanical techie. I can build things with my hands.

If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.

And anyway, life's too short....

Above all Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there... and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong.

Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

Sometimes I wish I had every different sort of board that I could just bring out for this surf when I feeling like surfing this board. I love riding old single fins and twin fins.

She smells better," Claire said. "And she made me cookies.

If you hold on to the negative, there is no room for the positive to come into your life.