If you run into a monkey in some idiot context, automatically you've got a very real problem taking place in the photograph.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

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

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.

In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.

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