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

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

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.

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

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

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

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