I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It's like that. If you're going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.

Hell is other people's fantasies.

Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.