Growing up, I didn't give my grandfather's photography a second thought. I wasn't involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.

I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

Photography is an accident.

I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

There's something about light field photography that's just magical.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

I have a reverence for great photography, but I don't consider myself in that league.

I love photography... I'd like to write a show about photography.

I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.