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

Everything is so convenient in New York.

Real spiritual journey in life is the discovery of self. I think once you take all the religious bullshit away from Jesus Christ, it's saying it's about this journey of discovering who you are, and what's really important in life is simply love. That the journey of civilization, the journey of understanding, is forgiveness, is empathy. And that's what humanity is striving for.

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.

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.

Fifteen dollar too beaucoup. Five dollars each... Five dollars is all my mom allows me to spend.

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.