Teaching doesn't relate to photographing, at least not for me.

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

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.

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.

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.