I always thought problem solving was greatly overrated - and that the most important thing was problem creation.

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.

A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

It always amazes me that just when I think there's nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and as moving and as formally interesting as any other medium.

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.