I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.

Photography has the power to undo your assumptions about the world.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.