I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

What I'm documenting can be hard to distill, because it's all around us like the air we breathe. I often need to go to a place where I can capture extreme moments.

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.

I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

By what right do I bend men to my will? Or is there no right, only ability?

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

The sky is so clear today you can see all the way to Missouri.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

I have kept every kind of animal and plant that is legal to privately own.

It is the job of the editors to find somebody. I'm sorry, but you have to get out there and find them.

I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.

Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful but mercifully brief.