Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks.
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me.
I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.
I just love the world of photography.
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.