I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.
There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's, like, imagery there. That always stuns me.
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.
We are only beginning to learn what to say in a photograph. The world we live in is a succession of fleeting moments, any one of which might say something significant.
It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
Catching the right fleeting moment, with the right focus, is a very difficult thing to do.
I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.
Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
