The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

You can't tell by looking at a film-clip whether it is a drama or a documentary without knowing how it was produced.

The very idea of photography is as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in the 19th century, "it's a mirror with a memory."

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and then there was some benefit where she was taking pictures.

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies.