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

I wasn't very ambitious. I think that's the solution. I just took things as they came. I wouldn't say I didn't have any problem, but I didn't care. I didn't think I was going to save the world by doing photography as some of these people do. I was just having a good time doing it, and so I still had a good time no matter what I had to photograph.

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

I don't resent anything.

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.

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

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