I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment

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.

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.

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

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.

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

How many pictures have you torn up because you hate them? What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.