Richard Drew

“I've never regretted taking that photograph. It's one of the only photographs that shows someone dying that day.”

“I didn't take the picture. The camera was on a motor drive and I just held the button down, and the camera did the work.”

“This was a very famous man who I photographed. It's a photograph that I've never forgotten.”

“It's a very quiet photograph. It's not a person that's flailing or screaming. It's just this person that's in this vertical dive, this acceptance of what's happening.”

“I am a witness to history.”

“You have to take the picture. You're there. That's your job. You have to take the picture.”

“I hope I have given humanity to a horrific moment and I hope that people will look at it as the way that we should remember the people who were in that building.”

“I feel that everybody should see this photograph and see what happened that day.”

“The picture is the most famous picture nobody's ever seen.”