What I want is to create a discussion about what is happening around the world and to provoke some debate with these pictures. Nothing more than this.

It's more important for a photographer to have very good shoes, than to have a very good camera

The picture is not made by the photographer, the picture is more good or less good in function of the relationship that you have with the people you photograph.

The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way to communicate.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

I don't believe a person has a style. What people have is a way of photographing what is inside them. What is there comes out.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world.

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

I tell a little bit of my life to them, and they tell a little of theirs to me. The picture itself is just the tip of the iceberg.

Let's build Paradise again.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty hesitation or incongruity.

[Independence Day] was a sweet, sweet job, because it was one of those big surprises.

'T is impious in a good man to be sad.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.