"Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation."

“Reality is greater than our dreams.”

“Sometimes love means not being able to bear seeing the one you love the way they are, when they're not what you hoped for them.”

“The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.”

Source : Interview with Nick Hallett, logger.believermag.com. May 16, 2013.

“When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself—a masterpiece of God.”

Source : Carl Schmitt, Samuel Armstrong Schmitt (2012). “Carl Schmitt: The Vision of Beauty”, p.98, Scepter Publishers

“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.”

“The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It was early evening when they walked outside, the sky the color of pink lemonade.”

“If you give the same 200 frames to 200 different people, they'll all probably pick a different frame. The key is editing. Be intuitive enough to be shooting at the right moment, and when you're seeing the action happening just as you want it, shoot. And in the edit you have to go with your gut.”