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

I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them...It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.

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.

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 sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time.

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

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