Just think how minimal somebody's family album is. But you start looking at one of them, and the word everybody will use is "charming." Something just happened. It's automatic, just operating a camera intelligently.

The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

You don't solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you're lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can - it indicates, you know, your future headaches.

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.

Cameras intrigued me.

Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.

At times people in the press were also useful to me.