Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

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.

Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Our most successful leaders are people who put other people first … in the long run, that’s exactly what makes them successful.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

That's what depression had wrought inside me: one, vast, barren rock garden-without the garden

I'm beginning to have morning sickness. I'm not having a baby, I'm just sick of morning.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.