I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.

It's like a magic well. You think you know everything about [a] photograph, you think you've gotten everything out of it, and all of a sudden I see things in it I'd never seen before.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

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

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.