I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
Lauren GreenfieldMy photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.
Lauren GreenfieldThe people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.
Lauren GreenfieldI've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.
Lauren GreenfieldRace is a huge factor when it comes to income and social inequality, and it plays a role in the structural barriers you are talking about. But when you're in the upper echelon of the 1 percent - even though it's certainly a more white demographic overall - there are fewer barriers.
Lauren GreenfieldMy first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the UK is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.
Lauren Greenfield