I don't speak emotionally about my pictures. That's for other people to do. I will say that I love my photographs. That's what keeps me going.

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

I try to take my interests and make them my work.

It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.

The thing itself photographed becomes less interesting when you go back to it years later but I think the photograph becomes more important later when the reality has passed.

My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.

Patience is not something that you keep

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.

Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.

The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.

Pray for me to learn quickly what I need to learn.

If it hurts, make it hurt more.

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

I said that I’m a fairy… and I prefer to dance and fly with the butterfly but they made me talk and walk - and I hate walking and talking.

Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.