Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.

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

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

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.

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.

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