To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.

You have to focus on what you are doing, not just as a photographer, but as a human being.

Shoot from the gut, edit with the brain

For me, the camera is like an entrance to the private lives of other people. And if you are curious like me, it is a fantastic tool.

I can’t describe reality; at the most, I can try to capture things that seem to be valid, the way I see them.

I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.

It (taking photographs) is all about longingwithout longing-no pictures at all.

what's life without a little risk

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

So long as you believe in some truth you do not believe in yourself. You are a servant. A man of faith.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I want to be out there every single snap, every single play.

My favorite thing in the whole is getting to work with the actors.

Ideology is a certain unique experience of the universe and your place in it, to put it in standard terms, which serves the production of the existing power relations and blah blah blah.