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 find myself, after all these years, with a built-in safety-brake that stops me from doing certain things. And one of the reasons why I want to try so called hard pornography - I don't even know whether it's hard enough - is to see whether I will be able to overcome this. Because if there is one thing I hate, it's good taste, to me it's a dirty word.

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.

...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.

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.

They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.