A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.

When I discovered Gil Scott-Heron, I discovered a musical hero, a man who spoke baritone truth to power over jazzy funk at a time when funky music was primarily about shake, shake, shaking your booty.

Fans give me yellow things, and I think now what's really fun is, when anyone sees yellow now, they'll think of me. Now it's kind of like this self-fulfilling prophecy: Yellow things come to me.

I really, really want to produce. That's the top of my to-do list.

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

Sufferers of depression have 'episodes' the same way those who suffer from multiple sclerosis do. It comes, wipes the floor with you, and then somehow returns you to the world. But it comes back.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

An eyelash curler changes your entire face. It opens your eyes up.

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

My hair has been this chapter thing for me. In 'Jem,' I have blue hair. 'Insidious,' it's pink. In 'CSI,' I have blonde. I love changing my hair. It's just hair and it grows all the time.

Don't underestimate the people. Let them decide.

I urge people to learn from the mistakes of others. Please drink responsibly and it's never acceptable to drink and drive!

I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

Part of the joy of writing for kids is that you have to have a real adventure story. You can get really involved in the fantastic in a way that perhaps you can't so much in adult fiction.

Every person who has a reading with me has an audiotape.

There is no doubt that our nation's security and defeating terrorism trump all other priorities.

You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it.

The single hardest part of leading any organization is knowing what is going on. There's too much noise in the system, too much complexity: you absolutely depend on people speaking up and raising concerns.

I was born in Brooklyn and raised in Pittsburgh. I've never been to Iran, I don't speak the language, and, probably most important of all, my Iranian father left home when I was nine months old. That's the extent of my connection to Iran.

I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.