Everyone asks me how I get my subjects to open up to me. There’s no formula to it. It’s just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people - of being yourself.

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

Reality is always extraordinary.

I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

I was fascinated by my own prom pictures.

I respect newspapers but the reality is that magazine "photojournalism" is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars.

Live to avoid all the numerous field mines of life.

London is a roost for every bird.

What's the furthest corner? Because that's where I want to be, alone with the only thing that I love.

When we're picking someone who we want to spend a lot of time with, even perhaps for the rest of our lives, we generally try to pick someone who likes to do the things we like to do.

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Once you find someone to share your ups and downs, downs are almost as good as ups.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Blame unto others only as you would first blame yourself.

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.