Sometimes you have to fulfill a promise in order to deserve the love you're given.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.

She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather, that they fell in love through repitition, just the way someone became brave.

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it?

Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?

The hardest thing was to give meaning to what appeared to have none.

This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.

Too many heroes in my life. All gone.

Clear now that she was as dependent as any addict on the drug of the war. He had underestimated the damage in her.

A woman sees war differently.

Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more than life, but I had to see the end.

Man will never be stronger nor independent ifhe lives under perpetual motivation of others.

It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety

It is generally believed that nearly 40 percent of your first impression will be set from the tone of your voice. Your vocal thermometer can be more impactful than the actual words you use.

A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

I just take jobs that will have me. I'm an actress that works. I'm not an actress who's ever waited.

Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.

Mass movements do not usually rise until the prevailing order has been discredited.

I can't say what makes a picture. I can't say. It's mysterious.

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.