So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

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.

Get it out of your historic head.

I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.

You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.