The light in Alaska in particular is so beautiful. So beautiful! Such incredible light.

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

No child ever became ‘good’ by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

The soft bigotry of low expectations

Today's reports confirm that, unfortunately, post-crisis America is still not back to its good economic self.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves. The reality is that my movies all have made money.

My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.