It's amazing how if you turn up at a studio without an idea, a picture will take itself from momentum, and you quickly can lose control.

- Miles Aldridge

I'm inspired heavily by film influences - David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Federico Fellini, Alfred Hitchcock, Pedro Almodóvar, and what I see in the cinem…

- Miles Aldridge

I suppose I like to set myself projects that are tight, focused, and then challenge myself with how broad I can go within that limited aspect. I thin…

- Miles Aldridge

I'm always working in this universe - whether picturing hamburger joints, Virgin Marys, domestic scenes - using these "vacant-faced" women as a mediu…

- Miles Aldridge

When I began in the late '90s, I felt quite lonely. We were coming out of the grunge era; it was the time of Corinne Day, The Face, the height of the…

- Miles Aldridge

I look at my women with a Shakespearean element too - the variant of emotions they are capable of - it's not all completely dour, there is a bit of h…

- Miles Aldridge

I had been reading a lot of J.G. Ballard in the 90's and was fascinated by the idea of the vapid consumer society, the erotic charge of modern life, …

- Miles Aldridge

When I look at the women, it's from a male gaze of being fascinated, because beyond my mother, I've been around notorious women all of my life, and t…

- Miles Aldridge

Having a book is actually like a great master - helping to build a universe and unify work - especially in my pictures where there is such a strong s…

- Miles Aldridge