The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

I had in mind a long career.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help - no matter how little - to make people aware of the human condition.

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