You can't ride the chairlift and call yourself Edmund Hillary..

Bad beginnings, bad endings..

I can see today that the same sort of issues lie behind taxidermy and photography. Taxidermy consists in preserving a bird in full flight... In the s….

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them..

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them..

I react emotionally to everything!.

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

I'd like to have a go at directing..

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not..

In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn..

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet..

The thing that's fascinating about portraiture is that nobody is alike..

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They….

...There are too many people studying it [photography] now who are never going to make it. You can't give them a formula for making it. You have to h….

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men..

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives..

Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiment….

Perishability in a photograph is important in a picture. If a photograph looks perishable we say, "Gee, I'm glad I have that moment.".

I think of my work as very polarizing; either people really do like it and are touched by it or they really don't get it at all. It's not accessible ….

Now I am almost entirely love..