Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
You have to devote yourself totally to be successful at it.
You don't study photography. You do it.
Do what the client wants, not what you want.
You must have a visual sense if you want to be a photographer. It is a very subtle thing, this visual business.
In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.