Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when magic comes in. And I don't know that there's any explanation for that.

As a professional photographer I take photographs for other people to see - but I want them to see what I see. So I never assume that only a few people will appreciate what I do. At all times, the public should be able to understand what I've done, even if they don't understand how I've done it.

I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.

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.

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

The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published.