I've come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult ideas.

I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

I think this is the most exciting time in the history of photography. Technology is expanding what photographers can do, like the microscope and the telescope expanded what scientists could do.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is always about time.

In spite of recent trends towards fabricating photographic narratives, I find, more than ever, traditional photographic capture, the 'discovery' of found narratives, deeply compelling.

No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as Life which you should never forget to live and enjoy

Happiness lies within the heart.

Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything.

Globalization has delivered many benefits for international donors, but it's the job of politicians to represent the people - and to put American workers first.

Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.

They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!

In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow.