"My favorite date movie is Scarface. There's nothing like taking a woman to see Scarface. It gets the panties off quick."

“Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

“I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.”

“Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.”

Source : Eliot Weinberger (2000). “Anonymous Sources: A Talk on Translators and Translation : Lecture”

“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”

“The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted to make a display the thing would have been just to appear and dazzle the beholders. But for Him Who came to heal and to teach the way was not merely to dwell here, but to put Himself at the disposal of those who needed Him, and to be manifested according as they could bear it, not vitiating the value of the Divine appearing by exceeding their capacity to receive it.”

“Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through their particular perspective. Walk around the block with them, stroll the rooms they live in, figure out what objects on the cluttered dining room table they would inevitably stare at the longest, and then learn why.”

“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.”

“Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.”