Quotes by Martine Syms - Page 1

I guess I can be a little mischievous!
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Mischievous
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Representation is a sort of surveillance.
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Representation
Surveillance
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I think I do more fiction than autobiography.
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Autobiography
More Than Think
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I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess.
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Sense Of Humor
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There's no reason to be ashamed of feeling good.
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Ashamed
No Reason
Feeling Good
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It's very comforting to feel myself getting stronger.
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Comforting
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I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way.
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On-Screen
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My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.
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Intimate
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I'm really obsessed with this show right now called 'Power,' produced by 50 Cent.
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Cent
Produced
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If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do.
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Feel Good
Good Me Simple
Good Feel Good Me
Some Things
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I grew up in Los Angeles. I watched lots of television; I still watch lots of television.
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Los Angeles
Angeles
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Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.
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Machines
Entrepreneurs
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My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer.
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Photographer
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My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.
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Parallels
Movements
Nicely
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I grew up watching tons and tons of television. It was all I would do, especially during summer vacations.
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Tons
Vacations
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I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.
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Website
Designing
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Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology.
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Advertising
Ideology
Narrative
Pop Culture
Perfectly
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I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers.
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Manufacturing
Viewers
Embodied
Identities
Narratives
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A lot of my work, the subject is film and television itself, and history, and how that kind of coincides with larger cultural history and memory.
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Film And Television
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I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.
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Canon
Form
Sitcom
Television
Tv
Essential
Onto
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Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case study to look as those things.
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Sociological
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Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.
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Contemporary
Swiss
Drawn
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I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in their absence, are present.
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Absence
Movies Way Always
Presented
Voracious
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It's weird how the Internet changes everything. The kind of narrow casting... instead of reaching for a broad audience, you are reaching for a more targeted audience.
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Casting
Reaching
Broad
Narrow
Targeted
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There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And there's a certain sad reality to it, too.
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Absurdity
Crisp
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I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be squeezed into as few words as possible.
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Advertising
Aphorism
Squeezed
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I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.
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Annoyed
Afterwards
Myself Value Me
Visitor
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I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're a family who look like hers. I was able to appreciate them differently.
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Latina
Family Me Look
Cared
Family Look Me
Hers
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There's an uncanniness to living in Los Angeles, from the way you move through the city to the moments of feeling familiarity or deja vu, like you've been somewhere or you know something when you really don't.
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Deja Vu
Familiarity
Los Angeles
Angeles
Deja
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I think the medium or format of distributing things has its own characteristics. I think that an exhibition can communicate certain things that a video can't, and publications communicate that in a different way.
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Communicate
Format
Video
Certain Things
Exhibition
Medium
Publications
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I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.
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California
Heritage
Household
Southern
Southern California
Cultural
Grow Up
Liberal
Traditions
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I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of protest. I don't think it changes policy; I think it changes discourse, and discourse can change ideas, and for me, that's what it's about: having that space for conversation.
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Discourse
Effective
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When I'm working on something, even when I don't know exactly where it's going, I have a sense of what I'd like to make. So maybe doing things right is following that sense even when I stop trusting myself. The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.
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Following
Plans
Match
Trusting
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At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the opportunities available for mostly men. Those are the opportunities for a black actor to transcend 'black' movies. They have to play a black icon.
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Available
Serious
Ali
Good Men Movies
Icon
Mostly
Opportunities
Ray
Transcend
Types
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One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show 'Small Wonder' - the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it's one I think about a lot. It's stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.
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Memories
Stuck
Circle
Fox
Oldest
Television Show
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Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at the supermarket and I recognise the person in front of me, but I can't figure out how I know them. Suddenly, I realise I saw them in some random commercial six years ago.
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Los Angeles
Recognise
Angeles
For Example
Qualities
Realise
Supermarket
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People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going to see it. I like it to be a part of everyday life.
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Colour
Everyday
Everyday Life
Life Art Work
Context
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I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested in what everybody else was doing, and I liked being on set.
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Conscious
Film Industry
Work Money Myself
Everybody Else
Extra
Let Us
Neighbors
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