I usually know when I take the picture. There's always some kind of un-self-conscious thing going on, so that it doesn't look like they're there for the sake of having their portrait taken.

I know now that before I take a picture I have to be sure about how I feel about the subjects. What I don't know is if I should explain to them what I'm doing while I'm photographing them.

My theory is, the more pictures you take, the better you get. It's like a sport. I never wait to get a particular shot because wonderful accidents can happen when you shoot a lot.

I feel as if most people are pretty much the same within a certain class, due to the schools they attend and the way they are raised.

I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.

Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power.

Knaves will come and knaves will go.

Making movies that are really cheap and that can be owned and that you maintain your control of is really exciting.

There’s definitely been a change this year — and I’d like to have a boyfriend.

Let reason alone decide.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.