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

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 had in mind a long career.

Being a woman is just a marvelous plus in photographing. Men like to be photographed by women, it becomes flirtatious and fun, and women feel less as if they're expected to be in a relationship.

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

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