What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use.

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.

There are people who like photography; there are people who are worrying about what's going to happen with the dollar. They want to get anything that seems hard. I don't know, but I think it's got to do with economics. Now and then you get somebody who buys a picture because he likes it.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.