When you go searching, you never know what you will find.

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

It is my belief that the most challenging photographs are those that create a tension between what we refer to as the real and the imaginative.

In the end, I believe that the most important influence on my aesthetic has been the photographs I have taken.

I never prepare a speech. I never think when I give a speech, except for "don't embarrass yourself or others," meaning "remember the names of the people you have to thank."

I never think about a photo before I start it. I try to let my mind relax, and then when I get there I do it.

My best Pictures are the ones I don’t understand.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

I was consumed by my love for Chris Colfer, and I just couldn't hold it in any longer.

We have so many different options now and ways to communicate digitally. But I don't think anything is more meaningful or powerful than a hand-written letter.

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

Meditating everyday is essential. If you meditate every day and learn to control and stop your thoughts, you will become psychic.

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.