O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle.
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful
I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.
I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.
I don't like that particular word 'shocking. ' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
As the wealthiest country with all the blessings that we have, do we have an obligation to help the outside world? I think we do, as we have an obligation to help everyone within our own borders. The problem is that this automatically gets translated into: "What's the point of having a huge military if we can't bomb people?" That's the problem that I have. Our foreign policy is essentially our defense policy.
I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.