Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in crime.

It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.

I am at war with the obvious.

Many people one meets in life somehow think they know you simply because they're hanging out at the same counter-but they really don't know a thing about you.

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.