You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

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

I had in mind a long career.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

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.

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 drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.