Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

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

It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, "All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up." And they did.

The camera is a kind of license.

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.