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.

It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody, on the precarious pinnacle of the human landscape.

It's always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.

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

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

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

The camera is a kind of license.