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.

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

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.

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

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.

A portrait photographer depends upon another person to complete his picture. The subject imagined, which in a sense is me, must be discovered in someone else willing to take part in a fiction he cannot possibly know about.

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