00:00There was no reason I shouldn't have a camera. All I had to do was this.
00:06If you can't do this, if this is too much, then I was in the wrong business.
00:13A slice of a moment, a thousandth of a second of recognition.
00:19All I want to do is take pictures, take care of anything else.
00:22I just knew I had to be out there watching life and welcome ambiguity and the surreal, even though it's chaos.
00:33I realized I had to really jump in people's faces to isolate them.
00:37It seemed to me that's what you photographed, the instantaneous gesture where life will become clarified.
00:46It's the only tool that will stop time itself.
00:50It's like a samurai, you puff, you know, you don't have time to think, you just react.
00:56And if you look at my eyes, you know, you'll see that I'm not a normal guy sometimes.
01:00I've done some pretty well thinking.
01:03I was coming up by the cops, and I was covered in blood, my shirt was ripped, I got a couple of teeth knocked out.
01:09And he said, get that fucking bitch in that camera, wait.
01:11That bitch, I'm used to your problems, pal.
01:13It was beauty and the beast, but sometimes the beast was beautiful.
01:16No, I'm comfortable doing what I do because I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.
01:20Certain rangefinders are magnificent weapons.
01:23I think of it as an activist tool. I think of it as something that can give you access to places where you could never be before.
01:30She's sitting on a toilet, shooting up, and I'm standing on a bathtub, taking pictures, and I'm fine.
01:38Oh, wow.
01:39You know, the deeper you go, the better pictures you'll take.
01:50A street can be like a nerve ending.
01:54It's not the street, it's the life on the street or where the street takes you.
02:01That's important.
02:09Yeah.
02:11I think of it as a friend of mine.
02:12How do I fit my life?
02:14Well, don't you guys.
02:15Let's just say a man.
02:17Let's do this.
02:19What's the� way to do?
02:21Do you tend to feel that you're trying to destroy it?
02:24It's not.
02:26I mean, you're good.
02:28It's not the one that I'm doing.
02:31I think you're looking at it.
02:33You're looking at the next round of my life,
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