Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.

Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

I go straight in very close to people and I do that because it's the only way you can get the picture. You go right up to them. Even now, I don't find it easy. I don't announce it. I pretend to be focusing elsewhere. If you take someone's photograph it is very difficult not to look at them just after. But it's the one thing that gives the game away. I don't try and hide what I'm doing - that would be folly.

I get up early and open my emails, write cheques and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.

Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.