How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

When focus increases, options decrease.

One person's tattoo is nobody else's business

My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.

We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.