Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

I left school on my 15th birthday.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.