When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
Tourism is the biggest industry in the world.
The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
In the '70s, in Britain, if you were going to do serious photography, you were obliged to work in black-and-white. Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.
I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
