I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination.

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.

The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.