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Everyone gets old - there's nothing you can do about it.

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I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

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Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.

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

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I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

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I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

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

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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.

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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.

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Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.

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I never set out to be a photographer.

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

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Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.

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My first influence obviously was Picasso.

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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.

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I've always been a bit flip.

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

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I have never met an ugly woman.

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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.

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