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What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.