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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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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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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 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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I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.
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I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art.
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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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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I really wasn't about to get a Ph.D. in art history, you know, which you'd absolutely needed. And that was not something I wanted. And I loved art history, but not that way.
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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 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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I was never that big a rock-and-roll, rock guy. I really preferred jazz, you know, that kind of thing.
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