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.

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

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

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

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.

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

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.