Praised be the Lord, who has redeemed me from myself.
I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.
You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.
Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed. . . I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that.
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
We are men and women from many lands, representing a rich variety of cultures. And we have been brought together to work in a great common cause: the survival and progress of mankind. The concept of unity in diversity. . . underlies our various pursuits at the United Nations.
I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.
Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.