I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

That's never happened to me, but the control, the power to decide whether that happens or not, shouldn't be mine - it should be the kids', and that's where it stays.

Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more.

No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

Children feel absolutely invisible in this, unnoticed, and as if they can make no difference.

Very naturally, the ages of consent in Europe are vastly lower than they are here, in recognition of the fact that when you have people involved with sexuality, you may as well make it legal so that you can deal with them better about it, so that they'll talk to you and you can educate them.

Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.