In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

Everyone has a point of view. Some people call it style, but what we're really talking about is the guts of a photograph. When you trust your point of view, that's when you start taking pictures.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?

Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.

When I was young, my mom realized I could dance and hold a beat, and I really danced just for fun. It was good exercise.

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.

It's not that I don't enjoy other people, but what I find with writers is this back and forth. And also, there's no need to talk about work.

No other practice will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects.

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.