If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

My only interest in photographing is photography.

A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.

There is no special way a photograph should look.

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.

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.

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