There's this way that photography is always about going out searching. I'm not the kind of a photographer who can photograph my home.

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking inside an Easter egg and seeing a perfect world.

There's something political about creating a world that you want to exist.

We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.

Real life often ends badly, like our marriage did, Pat. And literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for people to endure nobly.

My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.

Birth is the epicenter of women's power

I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.

I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.

New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickering constellations of light.

Say whatever you want. But the United States has a kickass military and really good bullshit marketing people. If this country was a person it would be a used car salesman with a flamethrower.

When you value your crew, they look after you.