I want to privilege the moment.

I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.

My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate it with little figures.That whole thing [shooting is] about trying to create a world - there's something very connected to childhood and reverie and daydreaming and fantasy.

You have this ambition to make something perfect, exactly right. Of course, necessarily, it fails in some way and you have to accept that for what it is, and then you're on to the next thing.

Making that final commitment is really hard. Because once you decide to move forward, it becomes a whole process which is really hard to stop.

It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

I'm not that particularly talented in terms of making anything or - I'm not technically efficient. I certainly don't know how to draw very well or paint, and I'm not good with computers. But I think the thing that I'm good at is willing something into life, no matter what. I do what it takes to get it done.