My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera.

If you've seen my books through the years, I've always been a storyteller.

When I was growing up, all the films about teenagers were played by Tony Curtis or John Cassavetes when they were 27, 28 years old. We would see these teenage movies in the theaters and I would say, "They don't look like they're my age at all." So I wanted to make a movie that was real and I wanted to make a movie that wasn't about me.

I tell people to frame the picture. Make the greatest, most perfect composition you can . . . and then take a step forward. It skews it a bit and makes it more interesting.

I was over self-medicating back when I was a kid and didn't know it.

For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.