The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a [doll's] face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my cam…

- Laurie Simmons

You mine your own past in order to get to know yourself.

- Laurie Simmons

I always try so hard to find a male doll and shoot a male doll, and it always kind of implodes. Whenever I use men, they're so scary and so dark, and…

- Laurie Simmons

I remember years ago hearing a gynecologist say, "Women report a great sense of calm and well-being post-menopause." This was way before I was even t…

- Laurie Simmons

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

- Laurie Simmons

I think making features has got to be in the addiction category.

- Laurie Simmons

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

- Laurie Simmons

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.

- Laurie Simmons

I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color…

- Laurie Simmons