I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.

The subject gives you the best idea of how to make a photograph. So I just wait for something to happen.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

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.

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.