The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

The entire world is in turmoil. We are living in a time of enormous conflict and cultural transformation. We have been stunned by shockwaves of change in nation after nation, all around the globe.

Oh, gods. Not the flying!”“I heard you mounted my sister well enough.”“I want you never to make that statement again.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

I'm personally offended when I am scored on

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

Reverse the ball one time for a good shot, two times for a great shot, three times for a layup.

I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.