Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

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

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.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

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.

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.