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.

I don't know if I'm really the fastest. It doesn't matter.

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.

Actually, the animal pictures came about in a funny way.

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.