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

What do you hang on the walls of your mind?

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.

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.

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.

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

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