...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

A photograph is a photograph. When I am making a picture I am just interested in making a very interesting photograph. I don't care where it's going to go.

It's important to me to have what I photograph undergo a certain transformation - to become a thing different from what we are used to, to be another version of itself.

At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.

I started making photographs as if I were a child myself. This got me to look at things more closely, more slowly, and from vantage points I hadn't considered before.

The thing that makes me want to make pictures now is just looking without many prejudices. The stuff right under your eyes is the most wonderful universe - if you care to look with young eyes.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Impatience can teach us the lessons of patience better

Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.

It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.

If you go with Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message, as soon as you're hosting a blooper show, you're done.

Feminism is what I do with my life, it’s how I spend my days, it’s my job, it’s not just an opinion I have among many other opinions.

Spielberg knows his craft so well, he can also improvise, and that is a lot of fun.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.