The thing that a lot of people may or may not know is every artist is a cinephile, whether they watch movies whether they're painting, or have films that influence them.

I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.

I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Religion begins from the time man starts to give happiness to others.

Having emotional intelligence allows you to manage your emotions, show empathy, and prevent you from getting distracted. It also helps you solve problems and be a more likable person.

When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury. They're signing a contract that they are 18 years of age or older and they're citizens of the United States.

I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

When you have a choice whether to be be right or to be kind, choose to be kind.