I've worked with Robert Altman a couple of times too.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

Life really is very brief.

Everything is so convenient in New York.

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.