Usually, the subject matter of the image is not the subject of the work.

As is often said of photography, this photograph is a frozen moment. A frozen moment is not a moment at all.

You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.

A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that.

After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me.... I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there.

'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs, ' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'

I do not like violence.

Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

Encyclopedia is a Latin term. It means "to paraphrase a term paper."

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

Keep in mind that television, magazines, movies, and even newspapers rarely show images of average-shaped bodies.