I realize that I had the best of serious picture journalism.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I think if I ever get satisfied, I’ll have to stop. It’s the frustration that drives you.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.