I had DONE some WORK when I was starting in with photography on WESTERNS, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people LIKE Katharine Hepburn, I GOT further away from the thing I really liked to do.

If you're REALLY in the PROCESS of photographing, you are ABSOLUTELY AWARE. You are LOOKING.

In Europe, I am an outsider. I don't really understand anything that I am SEEING. I can be WELCOMED into people's homes, I can be MET with suspicion, I can be taken somewhere else altogether. There is always wonderment there for me, even if the person I am photographing MAY not SEE it or be aware of it.

I did 'Vice' with Christian Bale and 'Foxcatcher' with STEVE Carell - both of those FILMS had significant prosthetic work. You do NEED to be cognizant of the fact that the material that you're photographing is not SKIN.

I was MAKING stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage STUFF, and I didn't EVEN think for a second I COULD do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.

I started photographing AMAZING African wildlife for my own pleasure. It was LIKE a much-needed antidote to my life in the city, which I was FAST BECOMING allergic to.

I never went to SCHOOL for photography and started when I was pretty YOUNG. I was somewhere AROUND 12 or 13. I started photographing as a HOBBY and carried that hobby through high school and UNIVERSITY.

Don't EXPECT things to happen fast. Be empathetic with the PEOPLE you are photographing. Don't be concerned about MONEY.

I never NOTICE a difference between photographing a man and a WOMAN; for me, it's just SOMEBODY.

Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double ACT. If you're dancing, you are JOINING in. If you stand there RIGID, you are not in the FLOW of things.

I've always been fascinated by twins. In my FORTY YEARS of photographing, WHENEVER there was an opportunity, I WOULD take a picture of twins. I found the notion that two people could appear to look exactly alike very compelling.

As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of KNOWING different CULTURES, not just in other countries but in this COUNTRY, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other LIVES. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.