Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and the time and everything else.
Michael: Stanley, see this? This is this. This ain't something else. This is this. From now on, you're on your own.
Stanley Spector: [watching it rain frogs outside the library window] This happens. This is something that happens.
Stanley Goodspeed: How, in the name of Zeus's butthole, did you get out of your cell?
Stanley Kubrick's '2001' was the door that opened up the possibility of science fiction for me. Everything else up to then was fine, but didn't quite work for me.
A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.
I think privacy is important, and it's important you don't bore people with your own boring self.
If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.
You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.
It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.
Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
I'm trained to look for certain things... I shoot, I shoot, I shoot, and then I go find it in the ether.
You have to raise the bar. Give yourself a challenge. Ask yourself, 'How can one make the impossible materialise?'
One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.
In order to engage in an 'experiencing of the world,' one has to physically move oneself to the most diverse places on earth.
