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My sister was brilliant: she was in the 25 top math students in the country. When she finished college, I said, 'Spend a couple of months here in Europe. You'll get another take on life.' She never came - married some schmuck who made clothes for fat women on Seventh Avenue. ”

I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in the Bronx or Brooklyn was incredible... for me, that was like a foreign country. ”

My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me. ”

If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life. ”

I find it satisfying that what I've done in photography has had so much influence in how people take photographs and what they look at and how they look at things. ”

I thought it would be good not to hide the fact that you're taking a photograph, and have people react and come in close and also make a commentary on what's being photographed: 'This is a photo, this is my point of view.' ”

People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day, win the lottery and be photographed. ”

What's very funny is when you see amateurs filming something, they do some things no professionals would dare to do. They instinctively do things that are very avant-garde and useful. ”

I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor. ”

I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things. ”