I think I'm predominantly known for my portraits. Obviously in my work there are landscape or stilllife elements, but mainly my work is people . . .

I am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

The place where I am is always my favorite place.

I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

Whatever happens next, I'm sure it's going to be a great adventure.

Among many other things, genius implies the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple, and to recognize inclusive structural principals.

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

The key to No-Limit... is to put a man to a decision for all his chips.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.

The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.