You seem to make different concessions with yourself about what you want to focus on or not, and what you want to pay attention to.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

Making a painting is like playing the saxophone. You hit the note and it comes out.

I do dream about art, and images come to me in dreams. I am definitely hoping to be in touch with my subconscious. I expect a call any minute.

Painting is like breathing to me. It’s what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Paintings are not like the Internet. They're not like movies. They're not electronic-friendly. You have to go see them. You have to stand in front of them. That's the great thing about them.

I work with things left over from other things.

It doesn't matter what I think I am, it matters what I do.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I think beauty is a feeling that you get after you've had an experience. It's the way you feel about it that is beautiful.

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

So much done and so much learned, but so much more to do and see, and learn.

Don’t condemn me to the prison of your bullshit.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

I don't like gratuitous violence. I don't like the 'Saw' movies. I don't like the 'Hostel' movies. I don't like anything that is violence for violence's sake.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

If I believe that abortion is wrong, and I want to convince you that it's wrong, there's no reason I should recount to you my personal narrative of how I came to believe this.

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful.