A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

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

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.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

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.

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.