But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

Magic isn’t a far-off phenomenon.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

Steven [Soderbergh] is so generous and when I sat down to meet him for "Logan Lucky" he answered so many questions about directing, so when I was on set I tried not to bug him too much.

Music is a reflection of who you are.

Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

You just learn one thing for the day, that can change a fight.

All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.