Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film in mind at all.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.

Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

If I knew what the picture was going to be like I wouldn’t make it. It was almost like it was made already – the challenge is more about trying to make what you can’t think of.

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.

The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at least try them on.

Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.

There is no other like a mother.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination try to visualize a world without death.

Christianity at any given time is strong or weak depending upon her concept of God.

Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.

I don't actually drive trains. I'm an actor.

People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

In all honesty, I never actually did anything wrong (in my eyes, at least) at school or misbehaved in any big way. If it was anything, it was probably just a lot of clowning around.