I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.

It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

People's vocabulary has expanded.

The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.