Some people's photography is an art. Not mine. Art is a dirty word in photography. All this fine art crap is killing it already.

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

There must be a certain look of availability in the women I photograph. I think the woman who gives the appearance of being available is sexually much more exciting than a woman who's completely distant. This sense of availability I find erotic.

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 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.

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.

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