This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing.

I have a terror of things being nice and knowing what to expect. Making a photograph is a license to have experiences that I would not otherwise have.

There's always been something illicit about the way I work. I'm photographing people I don't know, when nobody else is home - there's a necessary degree of secrecy.

In life, you will always be faced with a series of God-ordained opportunities brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges.

Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.

The bulk of my input comes from my peers.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.

Often, we don't recognize real moments of happiness in our lives because we've been expecting something different- something bigger or perhaps more dramatic.

I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.