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

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

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

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

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.

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