 At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way. |
| You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. |
| When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. |
| When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing. |
| I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you. |
| There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them. |
| When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't. |
| I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful. |
| I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me. |
| I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism. |
| A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. |
| No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was. |
| What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not. |
| In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative. |
| If it makes you cry, it goes in the show. |
| Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter. |
| When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward. |
| I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame. |
| What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone. |
| Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well. |
