The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.

When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love.

"There are strings," said Mr. Tappertit, flourishing his bread-and-cheese knife in the air, "in the human heart that had better not be wibrated..."

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

Hollywood is a fast-paced, competitive world.

We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.

Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.

You need to love everyone.

To beguile the time, look like the time.