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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

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If somebody gives me a chance to do something, I am going to use that space, that time, that light, that whatever it is and try and work with it.
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The Vogels were quite strict in what they acquired. They never acquired a projection. They never acquired a sound piece. They were never big on photos that much, unless it was photos documenting something. They had some limitations into what they bought.
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I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.
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I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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You know, there are some people who just don't - that cannot get comfortable behind the wheel of a car and always sort of think they're going to kill somebody.
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I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.
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Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt that they absolutely didn't get what I was doing. It was their limitations on what they thought art should be or what they thought my work should be in relation to earlier work or whatever.
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Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
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Normally my head is always filled with art ideas and things that I have to do, deadlines that I have to meet.
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You can never really predict how people are going to react, what they're going to think about, whether they care.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art.
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Developing your own style became something very interesting, very important to me.
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The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.
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I never stop thinking about what I have to do. Let's put it that way. The only thing that takes me out of that is probably a film. I watch a lot of movies.
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And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.
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If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.
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I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
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