I'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.

I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.

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.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

I had an agent. When [Edward] Steichen was doing "The Family of Man", I went up to the office one day. I think Wayne Miller, who assisted Steichen with "The Family of Man," was up there and pulled out a bunch of pictures. So I got a message: "Take these pictures, call Steichen, make an appointment and take these pictures up there." And that's how I met him.