If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)

Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

The general killed the Viet Cong I killed the general with my camera.

Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.