The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures.

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

We all die twice - once when we actually die and once when no one on earth recognizes our photograph.

Photography is used to give evidence, and the evidence is always deceiving.

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you – you’ve killed them in a way.

I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.

The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

I think that all human activity is stupid. Artistic activity is also stupid, but you can see it more clearly.

A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence

Veins of ivy scale stones, find footholds butthe caretaker cuts earth short, peels creepers from Cotswold rock and props the deadhead to head so they won’ttopple like drunkson their moss-soft shadows.

Work with whatever tool you may have at your disposal, and you shall find better tool as you go ahead.

I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.

Truth is it's own witness.

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why.

I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.

Religion poisons everything good in this world.