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.

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

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.