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.

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.

You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available.

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.

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.

...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.