You are not a photographer because you are interested in photography.

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.

Learn from the best; the second raters have nothing to offer.

The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.

There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.

The most important piece of equipment after the camera is a good pair of shoes.

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.

I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.

My advice is: learn from the best or teach yourself. And do not bother at all if you do not have an exaggerated sense of curiosity.

Art is a sense of magic.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'

By the time the Oscars are on I'll be seventy. How many more chances am I going to have to get nominated for an Oscar?

Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.

Interesting fact: a shark will only attack you if you’re wet.

When one trusts this inner universal power, it automatically draws forth the trust of the people one deals with.

A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.