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.

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

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

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.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

...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.