I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the hope of being recognized as what we'd like to be.--PERFORMANCE

The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera, and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence, is what the making of a portrait is all about.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

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

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.