If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

If my photos have any value, it's because they show a Mexico that no longer exists.

I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker!

I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.

I get them [auditions] from time to time, and I sometimes get auditions for big dramas, and I often think, well, I'm not going to get that part. This was a big surprise - it was The X-Files.

I myself do not believe in explaining anything.

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.