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My father was like Willy Loman, you know: he never really made it - and he was from a family where there were people who had made it.

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that?

Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.'

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.

I like the streets. I grew up in the streets.

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.

I saw New York differently after being in Paris for a few years.

Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America.

I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened.

I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training. By accident, I put a negative in an enlarger, and you can do many things with that negative.

I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.

I like film. I'm old fashioned.

In fashion, you have assistants, flashes; you can make sets. There are people running around doing things for you. But I can take it or leave it.

For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.

Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money.

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

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.'

I thought it would be a good idea to look at New York with this half-European, half-native eye and really do something to get back at this city that I thought really gave me a hard time when I grew up.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4 in the morning.

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

When I was a kid in New York, long before saturation sports coverage, the world heavyweight championship was, with the baseball World Series, the great national event.

If a film is a real knockout like 'Raging Bull,' it does not matter that it might not have happened like that.

The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I cropped, blurred, played with the negatives.

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.

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