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

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

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

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.

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

Get it out of your historic head.