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

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.

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

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.

Nobody ever goes before their time.

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

Only, as long as we're going insane we may as well go the whole way. A mere shred of sanity is of no value.

I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

Prepare yourself for the worst, and the best will always happen.

I don't really do glasses. It's a good look, but I'm not big on wearing clear glasses for fashion. And I don't wear too many shades because my fans love to see my eyes.