I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

People want security in this insecure world.

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

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.

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.

I always go for simplicity.