There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

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.

Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

If you didn’t take the picture, you weren’t there.

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

If I ever hear "Power to the people" again, I'llà I just found out that John Lennon wrote that song, "All we are saying is give peace a chance." I couldn't believe it. I thought it was terrible; I hated that song. They used to bring out the Pete Seeger wind-up toy to sing it. Tiresome.