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I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.

Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don't consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.

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.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.