...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.

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.

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

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

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.