I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

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.

I said the photograph isn't what was photographed, it's something else. It's about transformation. And that's what it is.

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 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.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?