My father was like Willy Loman, you know: he never really made it - and he was from a family where there were people who had made it.

Why did I take fashion photographs? I thought it was fun. And there was a lot of money.

I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that?

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

French photography was basically poetic, and mine was vulgar and brash and violent, except that there's never any violence in the photographs: it's only in the photographic style.

I like the streets. I grew up in the streets.