...I gave up on being a journalist - I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

You can make peace with an enemy, if the enemy abandons the idea of destroying you. That is the critical test. Democracies fail to understand what I just said.

I like to think that every movie emerges from the conversations.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.