I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

I’ve said about a million times that the best thing a young photographer can do is to stay close to home. Start with your friends and family, the people who will put up with you. Discover what it means to be close to your work, to be intimate with a subject. Measure the difference between that and working with someone you don't know as much about. Of course there are many good photographs that have nothing to do with staying close to home, and I guess what I'm really saying is that you should take pictures of something that has meaning for you

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

Photography is not something you retire from.