No one moment is most important. Any moment can be something.

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

Aside from the fact of just taking things out of context, I don't know why. That's part of a mystery. In a way, a transformation is a mystery to me. But there is a transformation, and that's fascinating.

I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a certain button in an audience, to make them laugh or love, feel warm or hate or what - I know how to do this.

It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

Now and then I'll get a student who asks a question that puts me up against the wall and maybe by the end of the semester I can begin to deal with the question.

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.