You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it doesn't mean I ever met him, does it?

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.

I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box.