My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

I'm a very curious person. And most people are charmed by curiosity - especially if you are curious about them or what they are doing . . . unless they are breaking into a car or something.

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.

I always thought that I was lazy because I could never tell if I was working or not. I was making things, which doesn't seem like work.

I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

In Holland, things were pretty stale for me. Even though there were a lot of good influences and a certain openness to music and art and literature, I just wanted to go somewhere less familiar - somewhere bigger.