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I hate having my photograph taken.

I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

If they want a photograph, then just take it.

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

I do read many of the photography magazines from the U.K. and abroad.