Peter Lindbergh

I go out very rarely in Paris. If it's a fashion party at a nightclub, I wouldn't dream to go. People come to you for your work, not because you go to all their parties.

I don't feel like a fashion person. I don't even have a little earring somewhere.

The idea of beauty today is a bloody mess. It's really awful. You look in the fashion magazines and see all of these retouched people. Some guys called retouchers go on the computer and take away everything that you are and then call it photography. I think it's such an insult.

When I start thinking about a story, I don't start by thinking about the fashion, but about who I want to photograph and what the story should be about.

I would love to photograph Angelina Jolie.

I thought fashion was just the pretext to do images with lots of freedom and get them published in magazines. You could express your point of view, make statements about women and about what you believe in.