I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.

When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.

It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.