"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping.

Utter truth is essential...and to get that truth may take a lot of searching and long hours.

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.