I scare people a little bit, so why not? That's what we do as drag queens. We're supposed to be a little intimidating!
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
Working on photography is working on oneself.
In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only insofar as it is apparent on the outside. . . Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
I am a very conservative person. And there are a lot of things that Donald Trump's government or administration is doing that I might agree with. The point is we have to defend the rules of the game. And one of the things that has empowered Donald Trump is that not enough people are serious enough about defending the rules of the game, maybe because they don't understand how endangered those rules are.
Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.
Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.
It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.