Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. It’s a big show for me, as if it wouldn’t happen if I wasn’t there with a camera.

I don't go around looking at my pictures.

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

Well, in terms of what a camera does. Again, you go back to that original idea that what you photograph is responsible for how it [the photograph] looks. And it's not plastic, in a way. The problem is unique in photographic terms.

Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.

When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.