I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

I love a really good storyline.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.

When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing?

Don't talk to us like we ignint!

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.

Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.

The one thing that is always clear in my mind is that the people, and their stories, and the themes of life that I photograph are always more important to me than the process of photography itself.

I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop.