I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

I always thought that it was kind of silly that a baseball card could be worth so much money.

Everything is so convenient in New York.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

As an actor, I've been all over the map, but since I've moved to Hollywood, people tend to cast me in these more imposing characters, which is actually really fun for me. I've always been way more attracted to playing that than the hero.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Britain is an open and tolerant country, and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so.

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.

It was very weird because for a long time no one really recognised me from my films, but 'The Hobbit' has totally changed that, and I've had some really special moments, especially with youngsters.

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ

But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.

As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London.

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

The financial crisis and the Great Recession demonstrated, in a dramatic and unmistakable manner, how extraordinarily vulnerable are the large share of American families with very few assets to fall back on. We have come far from the worst moments of the crisis, and the economy continues to improve.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

Avoid negative people, for they are the greatest destroyers of self confidence and self-esteem. Surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you!

I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.