If I can upset people, if I can ruin their day, then I have done my job.

I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

I became a photographer in order to be a war photographer, and a photographer involved in what I thought were critical social issues. From the very beginning this was my goal.

You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

If you make an honest picture of war, it will be an antiwar photograph.

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.

Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)

Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have a pulse on what's important today.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.