One man's fantasy is another man's job.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

When I look around today, the biggest anachronism I see is pregnancy. I just can't believe that people are still pregnant.

Man himself is the beginning and the end of every economy.

I wish James Dean would never have died. Then he'd be fat and acting on Dynasty or something. There wouldn't be this whiny-boy act that's so prevalent everywhere.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.