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.

There is no special way a photograph should look.

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.

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

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.

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.