I started out as an actor, where you seek to understand yourself using the words of great writers and collaborating with other creative people. Then I slid into show business, where you seek only an audience's approval whether you deserve it or not. ”

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. ”

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to. ”

I think, for me, the only real value to fame, stuff like that, is that you can then have a lot more creative power to get certain movies made and to do certain things. ”

I had a meeting with the producer of 'Five Easy Pieces,' which is my favorite movie. He introduced me to Francis, and I spent six months going to Napa and Buenos Aires, auditioning for Francis and doing these incredible improvisational games. It was a very bohemian audition process. ”

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography. ”

I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it. ”

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. ”

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. ”

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. ”