If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

There are so many movies people make just to make money.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.