It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

The only thing that's difficult is reloading when things are happening. Can you get it done fast enough?

The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.

Surviving, that's all. That's all I have in mind .

If you take a good look at the book [ Stock Photographs], it's largely a portrait gallery of faces - faces that I found dramatic. And some of those turned out to be reasonably dramatic photographs. But that's all it is, I think.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.