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

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.

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

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

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

Quit making believe you don’t know.You do know. Act on it.

How would I know which one I was?

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.

Reality is something you rise above.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

I'm into parlor dramas. I'm into theatre. I'm trained for the stage. I trained to do Chekhov and Shakespeare, I was trained for the stage.