If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures.

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.

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.

There are photographers whose shows I try to make it my business to see, if I'm in the city. There are photographers I have no interest in at all.

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