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

If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.

The camera is a kind of license.

Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.

I never have taken a picture I've intended. They're always better or worse.