I wanted to make people think, to open their minds, to give them a full picture of what was happening in Iraq so they can decide whether they supported our presence there.

There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.

People think photography is about photographing. To me, it’s about relationships.

I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.

I just pray. And I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion, when I was about 6 or 7.

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

The goal for me is to pull in the reader and to have them ask questions.

Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.

If women are all of a sudden complaining all the time about getting sent to Pakistan, then if I were an editor, I probably wouldn't send a woman.

I'm incredibly focused. I think it's a blessing and a curse. I'm so driven that nothing else can stand in my way. For many years, I didn't have a personal life.

I was assigned a Taliban "minder" who followed me everywhere. But he couldn't follow me into homes where there were women, so I took photos inside people's homes.

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the person who holds the job.

The one who can smile without an outer reason is a mental case for many, but the one who cannot ‘needs mental therapy!

A sunshine can bring opportunities for a person's life and you should never be disappointed if it shines on you because if you disregard it, you will miss the moment of great luck.

Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems.

Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower

And I'm not a micromanagement guy. I prefer to spend my time doing other stuff than that.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.