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?

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

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.

Which of my photographs is my favorite? The one I'm going to take tomorrow.

My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

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.