You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you.

On one hand you want to see your subject well. On the other hand, you want to be caught off guard to retain the spontaneity. If you know your subject too well you stop seeing it.

[W]e have ceased to see the life in which we live. It is my intent to cause the viewer to revisit the gifts we are surrounded by and see them as if for the first time.

When your mouth drops open, click the shutter.

Ask yourself: 'Do I feel the need to laminate?' Then teaching is for you.

Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment.

Description is the color in the canvas of your story.

In math, you could get 100 percent. It was very fair. That's what I liked about math. You could figure it out, and the teacher couldn't have a stupid opinion about it.

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

I loved sitting on my veranda sipping quality scotch, puffing a Cuban cigar and watching Cuba on the horizon, or the oceanic vista. Did this late in the evenings many times.

Influencers are dreamers. They are leaders with a vision.

I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

I don’t have anything against Jimmy Fallon, I love him, he’s a kick...