Quotes from Russell Miller

Iwould say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

If it's not true for you, it's not true.

her first husband was a 'genius with a misdirected mind'.

As souvenirs he carried away a Boer carbine, a band triangle, a half-knitted sock made with needles fashioned from barbed wire and a set of leg fetters.

Truth is what is true for you.

What is most satisfying for a photographer,' he noted 'is not recognition, success and so forth. It's communication: what you say can mean something to other people, can be of certain importance. . . The photographer's task is not to prove anything about a human event. We're not advertisers; we're witnesses of the transitory.

The only way to defend anything, Hubbard wrote, was to attack.

Those were his exact words, "an insatiable lust for power and money".

The newspapers at that time were quite complimentary, they viewed him as an oddball who might just have come up with something good.

I believed the stories he told were true for him,

There are two kinds of photographers, the ones who take pictures for a magazine, and the ones who gain something by taking pictures they are interested in.

I prefer to be noticed, some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye . . .

Foolishly perhaps, but determined none the less, I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed. That goal is the real goal as far as I am concerned…

The profession of photography is anti-elitist. There are very few professions where even when you are at the top, a household name, you might still be standing on a draughty street corner with your feet getting wet and cold, waiting for something to happen. At that moment you are on the same level as a homeless person, standing on a street corner, begging. In most professions, the higher up you go, the more likely you are to go around in a chauffeur-driven car.

Hubbard had this incredible dynamism, a disarming, magnetic and overwhelming personality.

People had a wonderful feeling with him of being in the presence of a great man.'[

Scientology processing, which tended to produce subservience amounting almost to mental enslavement.

The problem with photography is that everybody can do it. Everybody has a camera and therefore everybody feels they can give advice.

Rogers was convinced that Parsons was trying to invoke a demon in order to despatch his rival, or harm him in some way. It clearly did not work, however, for Ron remained in the best of spirits.

It was a philosophy which was supposedly fully expounded in Excalibur, an unpublished book Ron was first said to have written in 1938.

Anyone can be a photographer, even a monkey can be taught to do that, but a developer, no. It is the work of real craftsmen, exactly like an engraver, a real profession.

Well, I have been to heaven… It was complete with gates, angels and plaster saints – and electronic implantation equipment.' (L. Ron Hubbard, HCO Bulletin 11 May 1963)

A balance must be established between these two worlds, the one inside us and the one outside us. As the result of a constant reciprocal process, both these worlds come to form a single one. And it is this world that we must communicate.

He liked to collect celebrities.