I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

Art is the one place we all turn to for solace.

The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.

How you get work done is by exploiting yourself and your feelings, and sometimes people get in the way.

Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.

With diligence, discipline and determination you can fulfill the dream.

When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.

This fork in the road happens over a hundred times a day, and it's the choices that you make that will determine the shape of your life.

It was a very comfortable and personal relationship [Cliff Martinez ].'The Neon Demon'is our third movie and the music has never been as important as for this movie.

Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.

Arrogance is ever accompanied by folly.

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.