There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

A photograph can look any way.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.

There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and so things get messed up. I don't have a filing system that's worth very much.

It's the easiest thing in the world to do that, to make successful photographs. It's a bore.

I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.