Daryl Hannah and Harrison Ford Blade Runner publicity photo 1982 Canvas Print

"A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there."

'No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil."

"I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs." - Daryl Hannah, 1960

"The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away."

"You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit."

"What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are."

"Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel." - Harrison Ford, 1942

I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...