In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.

There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful than any other photographs.

Archives exist because there's something that can't necessarily be articulated. Something is said in the gaps between all the information.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.

Photography threatens fantasy.

The photograph doesn't claim to be a participant, or to know, or to be a club member of whatever it's documenting - photography is more demanding when it doesn't pretend to know.

I want to see everything. I guess the positive version of not seeing or not knowing would be preservation of fantasy.

The majority of my work is about preparation.

Photography's history is bound to the mistake, to the accident.

What's on your billboard?

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

An author never has a vacation. He's a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he's saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

There's no sauce for play like work.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

When I'm not working, I'm definitely a no-makeup girl. The most I ever do is a little tinted moisturizer and a little mascara and blush.

I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.