I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.

The photograph is kind of a proof - a proof that I actually met these people, that they actually have lives, and that they're worth considering.

It's always good to find things that you haven't found before.

There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

Every experience set the stepping stones for greater success.

When Satan begins to particularly attack to persecute you, it should be a sign of your strength

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

I put a tremendous amount of pressure on myself. I felt like I shouldn't have to audition for anything and all that. And that energy did not serve me at all.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism... is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

When we went crazy, and we did go crazy on residential real estate, it set things in motion that just - the dominoes started toppling.