My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

When people ask me which is your favourite portrait, they expect it to be Diana, or someone famous. But the answer is my dog, Puffy. They think I mean Puff Daddy. No, it is the dog.

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

When you're a fashion photographer, you must inspire a dream.

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.

I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.

I love my dog. Actually, the best portrait I did was of my dog.

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

Mismatches destroy us all, even the most tender ones, and most never have the courage to break someone else's heart to follow their own.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

Art is first a seeing and then a revealing

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.