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

In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.

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.

When you're with people that are aware of the fact that you're a photographer, they'll say, "Oh, look at that! That's something to take a picture of!" That's almost a sure sign that you shouldn't do it.

I do feel a kinship with anthropology or ethnography, although when you hear those terms you think of something exotic. Generally, photographic anthropology has that taste of the faraway or undiscovered place. But my anthropology has more to do with what's in my reach.

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.

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.