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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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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 work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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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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I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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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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The space between things is important to me. The projections, that darkness between the words or the images is very important.
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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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When you present works of art, one thing I've learned is that if you're lucky - [Laughs] - there will be those few people who, shall we say, get it? Really become engaged, become moved by it in their own way. You cannot control what other people are going to think about it.
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I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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People ask me why I use words and the reason, of course, is that words talk to you. I mean, they're something that are generated inside of you and that you can relate to you.
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I was good at art - always good at art.
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I try to create a kind of dynamic thing that hopefully some people will become interested in. And what they do with it after that is sort of up to them. But it's a specific item, it's a specific thing that I've done. And what they do with it is their problem.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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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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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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By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.
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