I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

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

When you're growing up your mother says, "Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold." When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.

It's important to take bad pictures. It's the bad ones that have to do with what you've never done before. They can make you recognize something you hadn't seen in a way that will make you recognize it when you see it again.

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

I think all families are creepy in a way.