1. “Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.”
2. “I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don’t even know until I see it.”
3. “I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.”
4. “My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.”
5. “I have had a lifelong fascination with horror movies, scary movies, how they work.”
6. “I always need to get away from whatever it is I’ve just finished, to feel a distance from it.”
7. “One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.”
8. “The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches be told.”
9. “I didn’t think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of wat I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.”
10. “I feel I’m anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren’t self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.”
