...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.

The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

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

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.