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"I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen."
"In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors."
"I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas."
"I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera."
"It's quite true that what I am aiming at, even when I take portraits, is to get a scandalous picture. I would love to be a paparazzo."
"In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste."
"You should feel that, under the right conditions, all women would be available."
"They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure."
"I find myself, after all these years, with a built-in safety-brake that stops me from doing certain things. And one of the reasons why I want to try so called hard pornography - I don't even know whether it's hard enough - is to see whether I will be able to overcome this. Because if there is one thing I hate, it's good taste, to me it's a dirty word."
"I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars."
"I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it."
"The photographs don't arouse me. All I can think about is the hard work it took to make them."