I have no expectations. None at all.

When I was a kid in New York I used to go to the zoo. I always liked the zoo. I grew up within walking distance of the Bronx Zoo. And then when my first two children were young, I used to take them to the zoo. Zoos are always interesting. And I make pictures.

When I’m photographing I see life.

I don't think of it as difficult. It would be difficult if I were carrying something heavy, but I carry Leicas. You can't talk about it that way. I'm not operating a shovel and getting tired.

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

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.