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"My lifestyle is bizarre, but the only thing you need to know is where the darkroom is."
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"What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not."
"I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn't know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck."
"Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."
"Mediante la fotografAa y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicion fugaz de mi existencia, atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan, despejar la confusion de mi pasado."
"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection."
"My surprises come usually once I start rolling and photographing."
"The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much."
"In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative."
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"I see things like they've never been seen before. Art is an accurate statement of the time in which it is made."
"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please."
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