If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.