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" My father was a tailor, my mother a machinist. "

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" I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past. "

" I did painting before I did photography. "

" If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned. "

" All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them. "

" My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them. "

" I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. "

" I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' because anybody can do that; it's not interesting. They've got digital and the computer; it's not taking pictures, it's not magic - it's a picture done by committee. "

" To get rich, you have to be making money while you're asleep. "

" You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens. "

" The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things. "

" The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art. "

" My paintings are rubbish. "

" I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light. "

" I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it. "

" I'm an image-maker. "

" I used to love the '20s. "

" I guess I'm the last of the Cockneys. "

" I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus. "

" It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres. "

" Photography is more about money now but then so are most things. "

" Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in. "

" I've had some weird experiences. "

" In a way, a man's body is more beautiful than a woman's. "

" I don't think it matters where I came from any more. "

" If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men. "

" I don't think global warming is to do with us, I think it's a natural circle. I don't think a few Ferraris make that much difference. "

" Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love. "

" I sort of fall in love with them when I'm photographing them - men and women. "

" I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties. "