I think the reason why I never wanted to do a retrospective is because I was scared to go back and look at all this stuff through the years.

I am a storyteller. I've never been interested in just taking the single image and moving on. I always like to stay with the people I'm photographing for long periods of time.

If I want something I do everything to get it.

My greatest lesson in composition was looking at paintings.

I've been a photographer for my whole life and I've done everything with photography that I felt I could do, and I always wanted to be a filmmaker.

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.

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