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The first place I try to go when I have free time is the museums. I'm a big museum person.

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I prefer music but sometimes if there's on talk radio - someone might be on that I like. I listen to the old - to Air America, down at the - liberal talk shows and things like that I find kind of nice, their criticizing the conservatives. I find that quite relaxing, entertaining, but music, a lot of music.
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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 the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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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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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 also a good writer, by the way. My, you know, my English teacher and writing teacher loved my writing. You know, I wrote short stories and things like that. And they liked them very much.
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I was also very interested in music. I used to hang out in jazz joints, you know, the Five Spot and so forth when I was, you know, a senior, really, when I was a little bit older. And I thought, well, maybe I could, you know, work with music. I can't play at all.
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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 didn't make videos for a long time because I hated the look of TV sets.
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I never ever approached a dealer. I have always been approached by dealers or curators or whatever.
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I am very generous with my dealers in terms of the art that they have of mine. They all have a very good selection of work that they can work with. And it is up to them to find the dealers. I don't interfere with their selling.
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