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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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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 had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.
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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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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 try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.
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I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.
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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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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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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 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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Everybody is always satisfied with what I do.
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How does any idea come to your mind? I don't know.
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I like contrasting between black and white and color.
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I shoot a lot of video, first of all, whatever I think is interesting, just my travels hard to say why. If something looks good, I take a picture or try to shoot it.
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I was always - I was a movie nut. I lived in the movies, really.
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Whatever came out came out. That was it. That's what you live with. If you don't like it, that's your problem.
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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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