Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do.

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

If I’d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldn’t have had to do all the thousands of others.

As salvation is personal, so also is the territory every individual has to possess.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but its hard with a kiss.

You go from these high hopes when you're writing to just a desperate want of not making a complete fool of yourself by the end of it.

I think all directors should be animators.

One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.