When I finish a picture I don't show it to anyone if I feel it's not good enough yet. I've learnt to listen to my partners and my friends. For me it's the biggest success if they like it.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers and as a national champion I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be what position they'd play and so on.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture everything connects.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying he wanted me to make up dialogue.

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.