Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.

When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

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