I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.
I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful
I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.
I don't think that there's that much difference between a photograph of a fist up someone's ass and a photograph of carnations in a bowl.
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
I don't like that particular word 'shocking. ' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.
I was able to do something that people cant do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
I checked my phone messages. Three in all. The first was from Joe. “Hey, Cupcake. ” That was it. That was the whole message. The second was from Ranger. “Yo. ” Ranger made Joe look like a chatterbox.
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.