There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

With grace we can overcome every human limitations.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

As with writing by candlelight, one’s greatest ideas come from ‘the flickering’ between darkness and light.

Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city.

I ain't never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.