When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful.