I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish ….

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself..

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

You can make anything out of anything..

There is no later. This is later..

If there is someone in need whom you wish to help, whether the initiative came from him or from you, do no more than he expects of you, not what you ….

Most sound work in films is done very quickly, and at the end of the schedule where it's just jammed together and you always wish that you had more s….

I couldn't be happier..

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own..

I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them..

Africa is on the rise..

Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now..

One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture..

Hope changes everything, doesn't it?.

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa..

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive..

The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA..

You get what you get when you get it..

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom..

I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things..