I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.

I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them.

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.