[Our self-image is] that gap between intention and effect

Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

Take pictures of what you fear.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

I kind of hid acting from my dad because I knew what he thought about acting at the time. His advice was "Don't do it," basically.

If you can visualize it, you can actualize it.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

My courage does not depend on the weather.

Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

There is no effort without error or shortcoming.