What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

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

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.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

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.

If you are careful with people, they will offer you part of themselves. That is the big secret.

Themes recur again and again in my work.