My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.

A lot can be told from what happens in between the main moments.

I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.