My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in Paris. He didn't consider….

I was doing a lot of web design at the time. And anybody that has an agent thinks, "Why do I need an agent?" Maybe it's a little different as an acto….

My mom had bought this camera to take classes herself and I remember working with her on it, understanding how the stop-motion [worked], having a hig….

So I tried to get my shot with a 50mm and I did it - this is when we're shooting film, not digital. The guy that hired me looked through the pictures….

It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to cap….

That was my experience with everybody in the book. That was what was so cool. It's just an excuse to hang out with people. It's not for a movie; it's….

We were little children, four or five years old, but they were all around the house and they made us look epic, like we were part of some story being….

I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is "One hour photo lab" or "Be a photograph….

But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself, "I want to do that." So I started doing that. [doodlin….

The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine….

My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it wa….

I ended up meeting this guy Stefan Simchowitz, who produced Requiem for a Dream and also went to AFI. I randomly met him in Cannes. By September of 2….

It 2001 when we started. But prior to that, I had made this website called sundancepics.com, where me and this other photographer, Randall Michelson,….

A lot of people have done that over the years. Many of the agencies today were started by photographers. It's a normal progression. It wasn't some cr….

I never went to school for that. In high school we had photography, which was great. That was another moment of discovery. I had a great teacher - I ….

Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look like. I never understood snapshot….

There were just moments of the punk scene and I realized that I had to capture it. There was also this photographer in our preschool - I went to a Mo….

Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I starte….

Yeah, it's just a lame term. I wish it was "movie star." That's a much better term than celebrity..

Over the years, she [my mother] always encouraged me in the arts. She actually worked at an art museum when we were kids. I took classes there. She w….

I always knew I was going to be an artist. It was a done deal right from when I was very little. It sounds like the dumbest thing ever, but my mom us….