If I am dissatisfied, it's simply because good photos are few and far between. A good photo is a miracle.

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate you....' I say: 'Listen, I think it was quite different. I saw people being killed.' They say: 'No. We never... no shooting. No. No.' So I can show them my Prague 1968 photographs and say, 'Listen, these are my pictures. I was there.' And they have to believe me.

The maximum, that is what has always interested me.

If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

I have to shoot three cassettes of film a day, even when not 'photographing', in order to keep the eye in practice.