I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

I see pictures all the time. I could stay for hours and watch a raindrop.

The important thing is not the camera but the eye.

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

I seldom think when I take a picture. My eyes and fingers react - click. But first, it's most important to decide on the angle at which your photograph is to be taken.

We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.

Isn't it ironic that a nightmare can masquerade as a dream?

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.

Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?

Do less but do better. Get back to yoga. Remember that stress is not progress.

Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

As an exercise of the reasoning faculties, pure mathematics is an admirable exercise, because it consists of reasoning alone and does not encumber the student with any exercise of judgment.

I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.

Time makes you bolder, children get older. I'm getting older, too.