I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I have had a lifelong fascination with horror movies, scary movies, how they work. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I realised that in my last two bodies of work - the mural and the Chanel pieces - that I didn't use… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
People assume that a self-portrait is narcissistic and you're trying to reveal something about yourself: fantasies or autobiographical information. In fact, none… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
[My work is] maybe about me maybe not wanting to be me and wanting to be all these other characters. Or at… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I don't analyze what I'm doing. I've read convincing interpretations of my work, and sometimes I've noticed something that I wasn't aware of, but… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I don't think I can see the world through other people's eyes, but I can capture an attitude or a look that makes others… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I’m really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Quite often, I will do something and think, 'Oh, no, she looks a little too much like me.' I have tried to learn not… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
The way I see it, as soon as I make a piece I’ve lost control of it. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so drained I… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I always need to get away from whatever it is I've just finished, to feel a distance from it. — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
Some people have told me they remember the film that one of my images is derived from, but in fact I had no film… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
I wonder how it is that I’m fooling so many people, I’m doing one of the most stupid things in the world…and people seem… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image