Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.

I don't trust words. I trust pictures.

I don't care so much anymore about 'good photography'; I am gathering evidence for history.

I am bad at memory - this is why I shoot pictures.

[The photograph is] still a space to reorganize our thoughts about reality and our place in the world. How do you disentangle the surface of reality?

Life is made up of marble and mud.

To give a price to an artwork, no matter how high or low, is always absurd. It's not something that can be measured by money or by certain numbers.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

We'll continue to speak out in a respectful way; never challenging somebody's love for America when you criticize their strategies or their point of view.

3D doesn't work quite so well with quick cuts and I probably would have done some longer takes had I really taken that information onboard.

Ideas are the currency of the future.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

Understanding is the wages of faith.

People who are not willing to respect not only the given law, but our democratic way of life, should not live in Europe.