I used photography to distance myself from a world that I loathed and was powerless to improve.

The photobook occupies that deep area between the novel and the film.

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself.

It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.

The ideal photographic document would appear to be without author or art.

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now that this was a minority point of view.

God is the Creator of all dreams.

Nights would have been expressionlesshad it not been for the moon.The moon, I say, is a mood.

Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.

Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

Everyone is just so serious right now, especially in fashion.

I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.

I believe we need literature, which, by allowing us to experience more fully, to imagine more fully, enables us to live more freely.

Character teaches above our wills.