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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.

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I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.
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So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.
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If you are operating in a certain way and you are thinking in a certain direction, suddenly opportunities arise. And if you are open to it, if you are not locked into your style too much or to what you think works.
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You can't make somebody care about what you're doing. Either they get it, either there's that connection - or they don't.
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I had always spoken about the space between the art object and the person looking at it as this dynamic space, which I referred to over and over. So the idea of the space between two things was sort of interesting to me.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.
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reaking up the space and using the space, using the length of the space, the height of it, whatever, the light, all of those things. It's something that you have to kind of slowly recognize in your work and develop over years of making work.
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You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.
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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 was a filmmaker. I made movies. I made films. And I always took photos and made films, always from the beginning.
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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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I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.
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I didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
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ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it.
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I certainly don't believe that people can read other people's minds.
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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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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I loved music. Music was a big thing and so I started collecting records. I had a large collection of jazz records and that was something else I used to listen to. At night, there was a - what the heck was his name? There was a famous - Jazzbo Collins, I used to listen to at night, and some other guys.
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