I've often looked at the extremes as a way to shed light on the mainstream. Even though everybody says, "Money doesn't buy you happiness," I don't th…

- Lauren Greenfield

What I'm documenting can be hard to distill, because it's all around us like the air we breathe. I often need to go to a place where I can capture ex…

- Lauren Greenfield

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 eatin…

- Lauren Greenfield

Race is a huge factor when it comes to income and social inequality, and it plays a role in the structural barriers you are talking about. But when y…

- Lauren Greenfield

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 …

- Lauren Greenfield

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 hous…

- Lauren Greenfield

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 …

- Lauren Greenfield

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 sa…

- Lauren Greenfield

I'm also looking for the psychological elements that fuel commodity culture. For example, if we imbue girls with deep insecurity about their bodies t…

- Lauren Greenfield