You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.