We are all role models to someone in this world, and we can all have an impact - for good.
I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.
There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus. . . then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam. (On the 1968 shooting of U. S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy. )
You are not just a photojournalist, you're a historian.
Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.
I typically like to train with the mentality of a high-performance athlete. I put in the work and do what it takes to be successful. A typical workout routine consists of sprint-based training combined with strength moves two days a week. Along with the balance of total-body workouts that challenge my core and shape my body twice weekly.
Fans want you to be something super-human, something that's impossible for any human being to be.
Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.
In general, I think, less is more, and that if a reader stops reading because a book is too icky then I've failed in my obligation to the readers.