"I remember the tug-of-war between wanting to make this picture, the first of the afternoon, and being unsure if it was safe to leave the security of the car. I pulled the car over, weighed these conflicting impulses, looked at this girl 150 yards away, thought, Nothing risked, nothing gained, and opened the door."

Paul D’Amato, Excerpts from journal entries made between 1989-2002