What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion.

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 do you hang on the walls of your mind?

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

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

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.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.