Richard Phillips

I'm not a hero. The military is.

The most desirable and appropriate solution to piracy is for the United States government to provide protection through military escorts and/or militant detachments aboard U.S. vessels.

We really owe it to the military for what they do day in and day out that we never even hear about.

I tell my kids, 'Don't do well in school, and you, too, can end up at sea.'

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

Anytime money is your main focus, I think we all come to problems.

Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.

Nothing is over until you quit.

I am just a bit player, a seaman doing his part like all the seamen out there.

There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy.

People get confused when they see my shows, but that isn't the intention. My intention is to destabilize the act of seeing.

Painting is a coalescing of experience.