I think that the obsession with technique is a male thing. Boy's toys. They love playing... I would rather search for a new model or location.

I like to photograph anyone before they know what their best angles are.

It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.

Women are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed.

I'm into capturing the moment. Sometimes, I'll rip the camera out of my assistant's hands and he'll be shouting, But there's no film in the camera! and I think, Never mind! Let's go.

I don't stand behind the camera drooling. Knowing that, the models are more likely to open up and relax.

It’s a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that’s almost animalistic

A sexy picture can come from anyone who forms an intimacy with their subject. You can take a sexy picture of your cat if you want to.

To write you dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams.

How much maltreatment and exploitation could someone handle before losing self-control?

These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it...Their agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton.

In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements.

I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.