...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

Stop telling God what you want to have, He is going to use what you have left to give you what you need.

For some reason salesmen spend most of their time asking questions they already know the answers to. They rarely ask to discover anything new.

In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God.

It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on.

I was concerned about them. I mean, it feels good but I was concerned about them.