I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.

Reality doesn't interest me.

I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.

How awful for them [Hitler's victims] to see those swastikas, the SS men and the SA - people we'd never thought of as criminals.

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see

I [seek] a style in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.