But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.