Nudists are fond of saying that when you come right down to it everyone is alike, and, again, that when you come right down to it everyone is different.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

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.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.

The camera is cruel, so I try to be as good as I can to make things even.

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

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