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.

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

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 certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.

Photos have no narrative content. They only describe light on surface.

I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.

I have to photograph where I am.