If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

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.

If I want something I do everything to get it.

My favorite color is green.

Do you what you fear to do.Go where you fear to go.

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

Change is as good as a rest. It keeps me fresh.

I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot.

I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.

You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.

Knowing all objects to be impermanent, let not their contact blind you, resolve again and again to be aware of the Self that is permanent.

Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris