Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

The good photograph is not the object, the consequences of the photograph are the objects.

Life, for people, begins to crumble on the edges; they don't realize it.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity.

For a quite good time I thought it's impossible for I to be right with an ideology which a group of people disagree with. Later on I was assured that I was wrong about that idea.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

I love kids. I have kids and grandkids. And I find it very, very hard doing what the law says exactly to do.

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.

When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.

I like audiences to crane their necks.

Without democracy in our homes, we will never have it in the world.

After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?

There's just not that many videos I want to watch.