Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I better find something to do to buy biscuits and stuff. From high school onwards I was earning my way with photography, one way or another, working in darkrooms and taking pictures of weddings, neighbors' children and so on.

I dislike landscapes. I only like people, and plastic flowers.

Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.

Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.

Quality … has to do with intention.

I am a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.

All of my marriages lasted seven years.