I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.

I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.

My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.

I won't show a picture where a person doesn't look beautiful.

No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.

I never thought heroin was very chic.