If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There’s no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.

There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence.

We know photographers make frames, but we deeply believe they can also create frameworks.

For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don’t belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn

The grass is not only greener on the side you water but also on the side you prevent preys from feeding on. Learn to keep out the preys and see your lawn flourish.

I’m supposed to feel like it’s such a great apartment, but I don’t. It’s the right price, there are no bugs and it’s got a great view, but it’s the lair of Satan...--Nil Caveat

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time is over. They find you out and send you packing.

The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.

When a woman says, 'I don't wish to mention any names', it means it ain't necessary to mention any names.

Rumination tends to be eased if we learn to be mindful; if we are able to be aware of, and understand how our own thoughts work.

It’s one thing to run across Canada, but now, people are really going to know what cancer is.