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We can bring it all down to the subtleties of the shifting of an eye because we know the camera will catch it. That has been a great thing to learn, and it makes it interesting for a guy who has been in it as long as I have.

The eye is much more dynamic than any camera.

My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

I am like a security camera ever on the watch. The furtive quality of vision feels to me like an incredibly valuable weapon. Everything I see gets transformed into a private sketch or painting in my mind, stored away for future reference, future evidence, future ammunition.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.

The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!

Having an eye is one thing, but you have to be able to execute.