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.

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.

Magazines don't have enough confidence to have their own style, so they use a borrowed style. That is shocking to me, but your perception is very accurate. It's a way to be more commercially viable, but to me, that's not having a style, that's having a schtick.

Shoot what you can't help but shoot

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

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