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

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

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

None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

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.