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.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Journalists never make it clear when you are joking.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.