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

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

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

It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.