Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.

I'm very interested in making the photographs look real, but a lot of them are highly synthetic. They're hybrids, located somewhere between the found and the constructed.

I love making pictures, even if most of the results are lousy.

Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible

Got enough leg room there, Rossiter?" Marc asked."You bet. If not I'll just make use of the overhead bin.

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is divorced from the concrete contemplation of the complete facts.

Life is a lot sweeter, I think, than you can be aware of it at times.

I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.

Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan.

Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world.

I love directing. It's where my heart is, and it's the way my mind works.

Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.