My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

To see the dawn of a new beginning, You have to make a move in the Night.

Ten years ago I wondered, “How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?” I’ve answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.

Twinkle tiny star.Oh, how great you truly are!God's sign from afar.

I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he leaves, goodbye when he arrives.

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

I would go see local bands play, and noticed how many girls were there to see the band, and that's what inspired me.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.