And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.
We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.
We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
I swiftly discovered that there are few things in DIY (and possibly life) that can't be solved with a large mallet, a bag of ten-centimetre nails and some swearing.
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.
I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.
I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.
I think your average fan probably just assumes that the same person directs every episode of their favorite series, week in and week out.
I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.
My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.
Who needs to graduate from Central Saint Martins in London or New York's Fashion Institute of Technology when a homemade outfit can go viral on YouTube with millions of hits?
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.
I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.
I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working.
I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
