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

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.

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.

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

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

I snore. Just ask the others!

Your spikes have gone floppy.

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.