When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

What I did, anybody can do.

My name is Weegee. I'm the world's greatest photographer.

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.

It's been a strange [summer].... I was sent by a magazine to photograph famous photographers.... Of course, I included myself.