My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it.

To me, style is like your fingerprint. Nobody else has it.

I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role .

There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.

I wanted to grow in terms of making pictures, not adapting to new software and technology. But that's the game now.

The last thing people want is a surprise, these days.

Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

Shoot what you can't help but shoot

Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.

Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows.

Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair.

These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside is work, and the Eastside is Chinese - which means my friends.

What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial.

We should not weep or cry or be upset when we see the generations pass, because all are forms of the infinite creation. They are not real, they are not eternal.

I love football. My weekends are booked. Saturday college games and Sunday NFL and 'Monday Night Football.' Booked! Football is first, then basketball and then everything else.

People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.