When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy doing?" But I keep working with my contacts and with my prints, I look at them all the time. I believe that the result of this work stays in me and at the moment of photographing it comes out, without my thinking of it.

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

I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.

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.

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

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive