If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care until it has a chance to grow and spread.

Photography is a very subtle thing. You must let the camera take you by the hand, as it were, and lead you into your subject.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.