Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.

I'm very flattered when people I respect like my work. It's like a dream of a little kid when somebody I idolised likes my work.

I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.

I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.

The thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.

Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.