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.

The place where I am is always my favorite place.

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

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.

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

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.

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.