I can't hold a camera anymore.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

It's hard for me to assess what I brought because each time you pick up a camera and point it at a person, you're trying to define that person so to talk generally is difficult because I have to think of a given image in order to conjure up what we're talking about.