But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.

A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don’t know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population.

I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

I'll go to do a shoot, I'll spend five or six hours at the beach with people, and when people think I'm all out of film, then they really relax and I get my good pictures.

I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.