I think I was shy as a young woman and realized that photography was an ideal way of expressing myself, of telling people what was going on without having to talk.

I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.

What I like so much about photography is precisely the moment that cannot be anticipated; one must be constantly on the alert, ready to acclaim the unexpected.

Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.

A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

I feel concerned by what happens in the world.... I don't want to merely document; I want to know why a certain thing disturbs or attracts me and how a situation can affect the person involved.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

with his customary crooked smile, “are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.

Dogs experience the world as it is, without judgement. When we learn to do the same, we make the world a better place.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

Success in spiritual life lies not in being the Best, but doing the Best.