The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.

Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while taking the reader through a brief tour of vampire lore and mythology. This is a book I'd recommend to anybody with an interest in the author or vampires. The parts which deal with vampires are obviously based on years of substantial research and personal experience.

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.

The camera’s not a camera, really. It’s an open door we need to walk through. It’s up to us to keep moving our feet.