You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history of the same events written in 1995 and they're very different. There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

I was delighted with the film [Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]; it almost made me want to be a film-maker!

In my dreams of this city I am always lost.

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.