For me the true business of photography is to capture a bit of reality (whatever that is) on film...if, later, the reality means something to someone else, so much the better.

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.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

I have to photograph where I am.

Well, I'm not going to get into that. I think that those kind of distinctions and lists of titles like "street photographer" are so stupid. I'm a photographer, a still photographer. That's it.

There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

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