When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

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

Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

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 are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.