Ernest Renan

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

In my 20 years as a photographer, covering conflicts from Bosnia to Gaza to Iraq to Afghanistan, injured civilians and soldiers have passed through my life many times.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.