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

Suppose Cartier-Bresson asked the man who jumped the puddle to do it again --- it never would have been the same. Start stealing!

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

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.

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.