We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. And it's not the excessively beautiful. It's in between; it's in nuance.

One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.

Art has to address eternal issues.

I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.

Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.