I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.

I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

The place where I am is always my favorite place.

I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

Knowledge if churned like milk, results in the butter of wisdom.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.

I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.

The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie.

Sometimes I ask myself, "Should I be out in a club?" But it's about realising I don't need to be always chasing after being who I was 20 or 30 years ago.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?