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.

In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable… That’s why it’s very important for me to show the artificiality of it all, because the real horrors of the world are unmatchable, and they’re too profound. It’s much easier to absorb – to be entertained by it, but also to let it affect you psychologically – if it’s done in a fake, humorous, artificial way.

One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.

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.

Dreamers are those who have achieved in love and life, because it is a dream that got them there.

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

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.