They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

My women are always victorious.

My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.

There are two dirty words in photography, one is art, the other is good taste

Look, I'm not an intellectual - I just take pictures.

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

Two demons: one who insists that what is to be inferred by verbal processes must correspond to experience

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport.

Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.

Look at you! You look like Rangeman Barbie. You got a gun and everything. -Lula

The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.

Anytime I hear that somebody's really rich, the first question is, 'Do you do anything with it? Or do you, like, chill? You just sit on it?'

I know what's what, and have always taken care of the main chance.

I guess you'd say, including the - what I just spoke about, the learning that liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be.

I went to Europe with Spencer Tracy. What a thrill, working with John Ford when I was a kid.