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.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result.

Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.

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.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

People — running from unhappiness, hiding in power — are locked within their reputations, ambitions, beliefs.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.