A good daguerreotype was as perfect a kind of photograph as was ever made.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

One man's meat is another's poison.

I encourage you to find your punk-rock, your lucha-libre, your pro-wrestling

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.

What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.

The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score.

If you can't take a punch, you should play table tennis.

One thing Mom taught me, "You're going to be dead a long time, so do it now!"

Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.

I had to sit in front of all these people, and act like I knew what I was doing. I faked my way through it pretty well.