If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

A picture is something that makes invisible its before and after.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.

Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.

Because image traffic has become so heavy and so continuous, it now seems as if these millions of images came into being by themselves, without the agency of a person.

I begin by not photographing.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

For growing again, one has to fall apart and fall to bits.

Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I have to keep Dune perfume in my dressing room, because I always wear it, but I must never put it on in case it makes me choke.

I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.

General reader feedback is usually pretty worthless. 99% of people give feedback that is irrelevant, stupid, or just flat out wrong. But that 1% of people who give good feedback are invaluable.

... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.