I felt that from my end, I should deal with the thing itself, which is the event. I pretty much functioned like the media itself.

I don't think anything happens without the press, one way or the other. I think it's all done for it. You saw it start, really, with Martin Luther King in Birmingham. He did the bus thing. And I don't think anything that followed would have happened if the press hadn't paid attention.

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.

Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

I'm trying to learn more and more about what's possible.