To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

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.

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

Sure. I’d like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It’s exciting. It’s dangerous. It’s funny. It’s tough. It’s heartbreaking.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

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.