Lauren Greenfield quotes
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“When the words ‘like a girl’ are used to mean something bad, it is profoundly disempowering. I am proud to partner with Always to shed light on how this simple phrase can have a significant and long-lasting impact on girls and women. I am excited to be a part of the movement to redefine ‘like a girl’ into a positive affirmation.”
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“You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.”
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“When I first moved from photography to filmmaking, I was worried about how big I had to become. I was one person, or maybe me and an assistant, and I had these small cameras, and maybe a flash.”
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“My 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 U.K. is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.”
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“I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?”
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“I'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 GreenfieldSource : "Lauren Greenfield, Director of ‘The Queen of Versailles’". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 27, 2012.
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“My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.”
-- Lauren GreenfieldSource : "Lauren Greenfield: 'It's everything the British love to hate about Americans'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.
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“I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.”
-- Lauren GreenfieldSource : "Interview with Lauren Greenfield, Director of Queen of Versailles". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2012.
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“I focus on a lot of women's issues.”
-- Lauren GreenfieldSource : "Interview with Lauren Greenfield, Director of Queen of Versailles". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2012.
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“All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.”
-- Lauren GreenfieldSource : "Interview with Lauren Greenfield, Director of Queen of Versailles". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2012.
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“The 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 Greenfield
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