I don't really have any faith in anybody enjoying photographs in a large enough sense to matter. I think it's all about finances, on one side.

At times people in the press were also useful to me.

I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.

There've been times it's been just impossible to find a negative or whatever. But I'm basically just a one man operation, and so things get messed up. I don't have a filing system that's worth very much.

I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot.

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.

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.