I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a [doll's] face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes. Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. That's something I really wanted to get out there right away.

I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.

I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.