The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

The unemployment rate is now at 9.2%, which is scary, because experts say 9.5 is the point at which people are desperate enough to consider Michele Bachmann.

This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop.

There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!