It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and other times it has to do with funny mistakes. There's a kind of rightness and wrongness and sometimes I like rightness and sometimes I like wrongness.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.