Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.

There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.

I am interested in what I term gestalts; picture circumstances which bring together disparate images or ideas so as to form new meanings and new configurations.

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

There is a great difference between shooting a photograph and making a photograph.

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

I have the feeling that there are things happening that are really very interesting things, if we can somehow find the key that makes them visible.

Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.

More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties. Girls didn't like me that much -- I didn't even go to my prom.

You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

Name one thing in this world that is not negotiable.