I think all art is about control, the encounter between control and uncontrollable.

i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people

Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is...the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.