Imogen Cunningham

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

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

Before I die, I will preach to the Muslims in the Arab world. I will preach in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. I will preach in Tehran. I will do it under the umbrella of God. And see its impact.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.