If I want something I do everything to get it.

At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism.

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

When I started shooting speed, amphetamine, when I was 15, almost 16, it actually calmed me down.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

My favorite color is green.

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.

Sunshine and water—the perfect recipe for happiness.

Serve one another with great humility.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

I'm sorry. I'm very young.

He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

In the long term, you have to believe that movies and TV shows will be like the opera and the novel, pretty nichey businesses.