Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

Sometimes it’s not how much light you use to get an effect, it’s how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and you’ve got to have courage.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

learn to experience and learn to respect, i love my culture and i respect iti m proud to be Xhosa

The tourist may complain of other tourists but he would be lost without them.

Thought is the strongest thing we have.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

War is a profane thing.

Our success already exists on a spiritual level; it's a matter of pulling it into the physical world.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.