My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog.

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

So Jesus in the throes of his Passion is an image of hope: God is on the side of those who suffer.

weak men are afraid of a woman's strength.

One day, our love will conquer this dark circle. That's worth everything to me

We walk alone in the wilderness.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

The GREATEST battle you wage against FAILURE occurs on the INSIDE, not the OUTSIDE.

I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens.

Your world is one of cause and effect.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.