HK: You kind of edit as you go. In some ways you work opposite of how a lot of photographers work today.

WE: Exactly. They take too many pictures.

HK: Well, it’s playing the odds, right? If you take a thousand photos-

WE: It doesn’t mean that one is going to be good. That’s the problem.

HK: You can take a thousand photos and they could all be terrible.

WE: Generally, that’s what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea…

William Eggleston, interviewed by Harmony Korine