I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera.

At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

If I want something I do everything to get it.

My favorite color is green.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

I have a motto that if something isn’t blatantly impossible, then there must be a way of doing it.

We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old but because they are true.

I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

What is success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No. Money, for the most part, turns people into jerks.

Were not a festival band, playing during the day was something we had to get over, I was like uhh this sun stuff kind of sucks

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.