I love being on FILM SETS EVEN if I'm not ACTING in the film, and I'm fascinated by the work of the director of PHOTOGRAPHY.

I WANTED to be a DIRECTOR of photography for a while, because I'm fascinated by what they do. You're made to look GOOD by them and you can learn so MUCH from talking to them.

I just don't LIKE to do PHOTOGRAPHY for MONEY.

Why are all the ARTISTS so dead-set on distorting? It SEEMS to be a REACTION against PHOTOGRAPHY, but I'm not SURE.

Photography is the simplest thing in the WORLD, but it is incredibly COMPLICATED to MAKE it really WORK.

I have a REVERENCE for GREAT PHOTOGRAPHY, but I don't CONSIDER myself in that LEAGUE.

Mapplethorpe PRESENTED the body as a SEXUAL object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his WORK in LOW regard.

I PLAYED in BANDS very very young. I painted; I did photography, all KINDS of THINGS.

I gravitated TOWARD PHOTOGRAPHY. That's what I REALLY did WELL.

WILDLIFE photography takes a LONG time because you have to WAIT for THINGS to happen.

Anybody that LOOKS at my photography, it blows my MIND because it's my last HOBBY.

To me, PHOTOGRAPHY is the simultaneous RECOGNITION, in a fraction of a SECOND, of the SIGNIFICANCE of an EVENT.

PHOTOGRAPHY is an IMMEDIATE REACTION, DRAWING is a MEDITATION.

You TAKE 35 DEGREES out of 360 degrees and CALL it a photo. No INDIVIDUAL photo explains anything. That's what MAKES photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.