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.

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

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.

I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.

You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.

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.

If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?