Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else.

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 enjoyed it [commercial work] until I stopped. You could travel and get around. I can't really explain why, I just didn't want to do it anymore.

There's all kinds of people teaching who don't do anything worth a nickel. Likewise in advertising.

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

Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or not.