It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

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.

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.