My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike.

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

Get it out of your historic head.