Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.

The photograph is an incomplete utterance, a message that depends on some external matrix of conditions and presuppositions for its readability.

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

Black-and-white photos tell the truth. That's why insurance companies use them.

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and obliterated by photographs?

The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.

When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments? Thou shall find that you all by name had kept thy precepts

I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.

I had always been proud of my body - its strength and grace enabled me to pursue my passions.

People think they're in control, but they ain't. The truth is, that which must befall thee must befall thee. And that which must pass thee by must pass thee by.

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer's actions.

Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the nature and spirit of our institutions.

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

We are in a world that is connected, but is not communicating.