On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

I just had a device made that fits in your mouth and juts your jaw out like you have an underbite. It locks in that position to keep your throat passage open when you sleep. This is the sacrifice I make for my wife. It was either this device or me sleeping in the other room.

I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.