I'm used to being behind a camera. That's much more natural for me. But if my life can inspire people, that's what I have to do. My idea is to be of service.

You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.

I don't believe in compromise, I believe there is a goal we are trying to reach.

Choose your path or others may choose it for you.

When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

I'm great at lying to myself.

If it reenters its base, I have a rule to cut at least 50 percent of the position.

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.