The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.

I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.

It is curious that the leaf should so love the light and the root so hate it.

I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

No woman should ever lift more than 3lbs

We exist within the question of God.