John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

You can change any status quo, stand out, walk by faith and not by sight and things will definitely go well with you.

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

You can only appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down.

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies.

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

Canada is a sweet country. It is like your retarded cousin you see at Thanksgiving and sort of pat him on the head. You know, he's nice, but you don't take him seriously. That is Canada.