...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

I think probably something big can be done with cameras, I'm not saying, er, I'm saying chemical photography's finished, that means you can't have a Cartier Bresson again, you need never believe pictures.

The cameras are getting smaller, they're getting more versatile, and eventually, I'm sure you'll have a camera with lots and lots of things on it so you can alter the picture. You could alter perspective.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.