[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

Whatever you are pursuing don't stop, or you will forever be wondering how it would've turned out. Even if no one else believes, never give up on yourself.

Our success depends on goal-oriented, focused actions, not on distractions.

You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you.

After every show, I say to Hania [Destelle, a friend], ‘They hated it.’

It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

We lose a lot of young athletes because tennis is such a difficult sport. It's not like kicking a soccer ball.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.