Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

If anything, I see myself as a witness. I'd also be pleased, if you'd call me an interpreter. I try to hear and see the message of a place and pass it on, into that other language, the universal one of images.

I think seeing happens partly through the eyes, but not entirely.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.