My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.

Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then they move on. Whereas in all the other art forms, take William Blake, everything that came to that paper never existed before. It’s the idea of alchemy, of making something from nothing.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this.