“So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggest...” — Ben Shahn Quote

So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

I didn't care where my works were published.

I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

A big producer offered me the part of the pretty girl that waits at home for the guy, and I couldn't do it. That's not a story I ever want to tell.

The only thing I've ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that's great. Turn on the radio. If they don't like it, switch it off.

I feel like a little boy who is constantly offered new toys.

I just get offered a lot more work in America than I do in Britain.

You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.