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.

Technically, I have not changed very much. Ask my assistants. They'll tell you, I am the easiest photographer to work with. I don't have heavy equipment. I work out of one bag.

...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.

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

In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.

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.