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

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any harder to be a woman artist than to be a male artist. We all take what we are given and use the parts of ourselves that feed the work. We make our way. Photographers, men and women, are particularly lucky. Photography lets you find yourself. It is a passport to people and places and to possibilities.

When you involve people, they come out, you see them, you get to see their sense of humor.

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

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

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.