Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs, and as creative as any of the best fine-art photographs. [...] I don't want to just be a photo essayist; I'm more interested in single images...ones that I feel are good enough to stand on their own.

I want my photographs not only to be real but to portray the essence of my subjects also. In order to do that, you have to be patient.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.