Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should?
Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.
The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.
Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion.
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.
My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.
The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.
You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.
I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.
I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.
Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.
I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
I was happy to ski and play a lot of ice hockey. But I've come back because I was - and am - a racing driver. This is what I do.
Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it's a video game, and it's not. It is very, very dangerous, and it's tough.
A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.
The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
