I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

It's just seeing - at least the photography I care about. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Anyone can learn how to develop. It's how you organize what you see into a picture.

If you're not a curious person, you're certainly not going to be a good photographer.

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.

I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.

My life has been quite interesting professionally.

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice.