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

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

One thing I would never photograph is a dog lying in the mud.

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

We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe.