Themes recur again and again in my work.

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.

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

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

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.

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