I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.
The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.
Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.
In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.
Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.
Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not necessarily a high priestess, but certainly the storyteller. And I would love to be the storyteller of the tribe.
My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.
The only way to change the future is to change the present.
Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured. . . even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.