I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

I'm interested in glorifying something that we in the world would say doesn't deserve being glorified. Something that's forgotten, focused on as though it were some sort of sacred object.

When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

People refuse to believe that I've never been to Starbucks or Disneyland.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

My pictures are not that interesting, nor the subject matter. They are simply a collection of facts; my book is more like a collection of Ready-mades.

I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

If the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.

You can be sorry you aren't perfect, but never be sorry for being yourself.

I don't expect you to understand after you've caused so much pain, but then again-you're not to blame; you're just human-a victim of the insane.

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.

Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.

I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.