One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.

The world needs more beautiful things.

We are all hungry for love, acceptance and belonging. Rejection can still feel like death.

Don't waste your time to appease people who have already stumbled in you because of what you stand for. Respect their decision & move on...

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

I was an emotional basket case.

Always listen to your customers.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?

I'm just trying to get a window seat on the way to Hell.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.