There are very few instances where writers have also been effective image makers - different skill sets are required.

Multimedia is not more media, but the employment of various kinds of media (and hybrid media) for what they each offer to advance the narrative.

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

I hope that many visual journalists will be hired or funded along the way as well - we urgently need their perspectives.

I never wanted to be famous.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

Deco, it was a pleasure to have worked with you.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.

I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.

Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.