There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

The last thing people want is a surprise, these days.

My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it.

I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.