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

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

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

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.

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.

I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

...I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.