When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

What I'm documenting can be hard to distill, because it's all around us like the air we breathe. I often need to go to a place where I can capture extreme moments.

I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

I make time for joy every day.

Great love, great life.

Every time I start a picture ... I feel the same fear the same self-doubts ... and I have only one source on which I can draw because it comes from within me.

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

To toughen up, is to calm down.

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

It's hard to stay true to yourself and what you want in life when there are so many distractions and so much craziness going on around you.

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .