I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.

All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.

There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.