I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.