A photograph permits a first viewing, and then an individual reflection. It solicits participation, and encourages individuality in interpretation. Television is an autarchy, a dictatorship.

I want a better world, but also a realistic world. We can only create a better world by becoming realistic.

Pictures put you in front of a reality that most of the times you don't want to see, don't want to know about, don't want to get involved.

We become very impressed when we get to look inside ourselves, into pictures. That's the relationship we have with pictures. Every picture is a piece of the inside of ourselves.

I'm a photographer and my pictures are used in advertising campaigns. But I don't do advertising. Do you hear me? I take pictures. I'm not an advertising agency. I'm not an advertising man.

You ask me about my ex-wife? That is not polite. But I will answer. I got another wife now. Much younger, much nicer, much prettier. And so much more intelligent than Benetton.'

Persist. Practice. Experiment. Imagine. Do your best work, and all else will follow.

We have to understand (this is another key piece) that there are some individuals who still need that drama, that experience of violence.

Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.

My motto is, if it isn't beneficial it isn't necessary. So, if it doesn't benefit me why am I even considering this bullshit?

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

Of course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there is nobody in particular I got inspired from.

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

Love is an overarching style of relating to another.