“The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.”

There have been many beautiful women since Marilyn Monroe. But who is there that has her total magic?

Nobody has that vulnerability any more. We turn to child models in an instinctive search for that innocence and freshness, but they don’t have the deep feminine sexuality that came from Marilyn like light.

I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected.

You know, the Chinese don’t like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they’re right.

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they’re ideas made into images.

Women like to take their clothes off. I noticed that. Especially in front of a camera. Or a mirror.

I was very lucky because she was the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. I photographed her very quickly, she was not easy as a model, but her beauty transcended anything I had seen before.

For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.

I think the digital cameras have changed my view. Even though sometimes, including the installations that I show, I mix 35mm filming and video handmade.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy I said ‘Be careful his bowtie is really a camera’

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance.

I don’t use a crap camera, I don’t eat junk, and I’m not going to a dance where the boys are bores.