I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love goddess.

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera.

Most people stiffen with self-consciousness when they pose for a photograph. Lighting and fine camera equipment are useless if the photographer cannot make them drop the mask, at least for a moment, so he can capture on his film their real, undistorted personality and character.

With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose (Jimmy Durante), and emphasized his nose, and he was very pleased with the picture. That could not happen with a woman. The most intelligent woman will reject a portrait if it doesn't flatter her.

When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.