The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame.

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.

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.