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.

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

If anyone gets in my way when I'm making a picture, I become irrational. I'm never sure what I am going to do, or sometimes even aware of what I do-only that I want that picture.

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.

A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfill it.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

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.