There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.

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

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.

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

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.

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