I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

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.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

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

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

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