Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write.

So many people don't think seriously about the fact that Personal Responsibility is one of the most essential credentials in National transformation

I definitely don't intend to only make films about Nigerians or Africans. I want to make films about people, any people.

Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

When they wrote the Constitution, only white male landowners had the right to vote.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full.

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there you have to produce that yourself.

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.