I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.

I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I think the wrong things are kept private

My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.

I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.

Great

The greatest rivers always find their way to the ocean. Like a ship reaching out to its motherland.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

I'd rather Apple cannibalize Apple than somebody else cannibalize Apple.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.