I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

Things around here function on lies because if people knew the truth, it wouldn't work.

The Key to Staying Focused is to know what to Eliminate and then Doing so.

I can't help thinking that caring possibly is the riskiest enterprise known to man. But how stop caring?

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV!

If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves.

Governments understand that help is power. That is why governments offer as much help to as many people as they can.

Unless we take care of the society we live in, there won't be any society left to support our businesses. We have to give as much as we extract.