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. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

I think all families are creepy in a way.

The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it's true. I would never choose a subject for what it means to me or what I think about it. You've just got to choose a subject - and what you feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold if you just plain choose a subject and do it enough.

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

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.