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 photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.

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

What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.

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

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

I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I am quite different now than I was 40 years ago. For 40 years I have been traveling. 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.