I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

Smartness without wisdom is stupidity.

Do you want this to be a love story?

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.

The artist can know all the technique in the world, but if he feels nothing, it will mean nothing.

Be more than you seem to be.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.