I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

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

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

I never photograph sunsets and I never photograph moonrises. I'm not interested in what things look like.

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

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