Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.

One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.