If I photograph you I don't have you, I have a photograph of you. It's got its own thing. That's really what photography, still photography, is about.

When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.

I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.

If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

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.