I always think that we know so much more than one would have ever known before. But I don't know if that's really true.

I find fashion magazines so incredibly boring . . . There still is no new photography and no new concerns.

I love people, and photographing people is something I hope I never get tired of.

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure. Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.

To look without fear is a good subversive tool, undermining taboos.

On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.

My staged work looks so real that people actually take it for documentary. But, in fact, that is my intention, to disguise the manufacturedness of it. Half of my work, or probably more than that, is staged.