I'm interested in reaching the masses with my work. It's one of my goals.

I slowly began making a few photos with animals over the years, and I liked how people reacted to them. When I would have the animals on set, I'd notice the way the models would interact with them and there was so much true emotion that you rarely see between two human beings.

I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.

You find the people that you need to find. There's this gravitational pull.

Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

When I was in art school, the photo kids were separated from the rest. If you did sculpture or painting or graphic design, you were all taking the same classes, but the photographers just went straight into photography.

The cool part about New York is that you can do that. You can talk to all the people you admire.