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 do you hang on the walls of your mind?

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.

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.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or a Leica, the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing. What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing. To have them realize without saying so, that it was up to them to give me whatever they wanted to give me . . . if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

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