Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

All photography is propaganda.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

You have to take a lot of bad pictures. Dont' be afraid to take bad pictures... You have to take a lot of bad pictures in order to know when you've got a good one.

You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found.

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

You can't learn passion, either you've got it or you haven't.

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

I am what I photograph.

The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in art, but I'm more interested in "cause and cause" or "effect and effect" or "and and and".

If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

No one's perfect. And we've all made our mistakes and you just have to live with them and try to not make them again.

We all have memories that are malleable and susceptible to being contaminated or supplemented in some way.

Resentment makes anything possible.

Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again, and keep smiling.

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion