Quotes from Ryan McGinley

I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.

I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

I can work with shyness, but for the most part I want people to feel comfortable with me. It's really more about the photographer feeing comfortable right when they walk in that makes the subject feel comfortable.

The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.