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.

When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.

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

I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.