I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.