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"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."
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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."
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"I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth."

"When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable."

"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."

"That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion."

"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."

"I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children."

"I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so."
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