I have absolutely no interest in creating depressing images.

I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.

It's weird being a photographer because you really have to divorce yourself from the image.

Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic.

I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.

For a two-job working family, a pressure cooker gets a meal on the table in seven to 15 minutes, start to finish.

It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.