If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved … - Mary Ellen Mark

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Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. " - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

Mary Ellen Mark

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

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Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

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Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

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I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

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It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

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I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

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The subsequent success levels, all the other stuff [after Trainspotting], it comes at a much higher level.

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Exciting underground stuff is easier to find with YouTube than it used to be. You don't have to go to the dive bar in the bad part of town to see a band you would never usually see. My personal experience with it, when I was looking for a new lead guitarist, I was able to stalk guitarists on Youtube. And instead of having a horribly embarrassing auditioning process, I could check out peoples' playing. In some ways, you go into a record shop and the selection is narrower than it used to be with pop ruling the roost, but if you look, there's so much more to be found.

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People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

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Gaston Leroux

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. " - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.

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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done. ’

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