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

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

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

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

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to have it in you first, you don't learn it. The seeing eye is the important thing.

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.