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I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.

I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

I'm in the early stages of a film called 'Freezing Time' about Eadweard Muybridge, the Victorian photographer who was really the forefather of cinema. Digital animators still treat his images like the Bible. He was a very obsessed man.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.