I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

Movie without romance feels like food without flavor.

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon.

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

She [Hillary Clinton] exudes leadership, confidence and - importantly - empathy, compassion, and understanding.

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.

A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.

It's always intimidating to meet an icon.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.