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

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.

Shoot for the secrets, develop for the surprises

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

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

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.