People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

Of course, you have politics, the Vietnam war and all that monkey business. There are all kinds of reasons. At every one of those demonstrations in the late Sixties about the Vietnam war, you could guarantee there'd be a series of speeches. The ostensible purpose was to protest the war. But then somebody came up and gave a black power speech, usually Black Muslims, then. And then you'd have a women's rights speech. It was terrible to listen to these things.

The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.

There is a transformation, you see, when you just put four edges around it. That changes it. A new world is created.

When I’m photographing I see life.