I have to photograph where I am.

I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.

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'm still compulsively interested in women. It's funny, I've always compulsively photographed women. I still do.

I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.

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

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.