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

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

War makes its own morals.

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.

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.

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.

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.