"We’re happier when the assholes are villains."

“I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.”

“There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.”

“If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.”

“I think that it gave me a really strong feeling of my life force and a confidence in myself. I felt like I was a man. Before that point for some reason, I always felt I was a boy (laughter). In fact, they called me the baby on the ship 'cause I was the youngest guy on the ship. But I always felt that way.”

Source : "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

“A bunch of individuals do the same thing because they learned from watching each other or somebody else. That's what we would call culture.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“I tried water polo and my horse drownedthat was a nightmare.”

Source : "Lee Evans: Wired and Wonderful - Live at Wembley". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2002.

“The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.”

“It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.”