Dates can be important. It's a nice way to remember when I took the photo without having to rack my brain or look in the archives. It also makes every photo important, because there is the date. I can take a picture of nothing, but at least we know when I took 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 have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.

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 am excited about more than just youth culture, and youth is also stretching a bit longer now. But I have to say resistance and disregard keeps me excited.

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.

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