I don't really listen to the media or anyone's perception of beauty, so it makes me almost immune to silly comments about my body.

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit...

I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.

What we're showing may not be your reality, but it's ours.

I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can...

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

It's old news, me and my accent, but it always seems to make headlines.

My first year everyone loved me. I was not getting that kind of love in my second year.

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy...

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You...

Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.

All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

You call it madness but I call it love.

Not seeing is half - believing.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize how...

Don't judge a book by its movie.

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

Pescatore marveled at the seascape. It gave him vertigo. The wind deployed cloud formations. The sun seared the Moroccan coastline. He had read a line once about "the lion-colored hills of Africa."...