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.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

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

One man's fantasy is another man's job.

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

If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

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.