Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people we see on the screen may be scarcely more explained than reality itself. Professionals, except fo the greatest, usually play not just the necessary role, but an explanation of the role.

The true content of a photograph is invisible, for it derives from a play, not with form, but with time.

The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it's something that theatre can do, but it's rare; it's very rare.

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.