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People's vocabulary has expanded.
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People
Vocabulary
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I don't watch a lot of reality TV.
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Reality
Tvs
Watches
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I try to make each film a different film.
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Different
Film
Trying
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The idea that recording itself is an instrument.
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Ideas
Instruments
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If you think too much in the music you are too late.
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Thinking
Too Late
Too Much
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Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.
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Consciousness
Speed
Way
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Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.
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Fighting
Film
Kind
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I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.
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Giving
Mouths
People
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When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.
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Irritated
Littles
Names
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I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.
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People
Tough
Used
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I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.
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Running
Challenges
Stuff
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There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.
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Chance
Acceptance
Film
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Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?
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Knows
People
Sometimes
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I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.
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Physical Things
Real
Want
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It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.
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Different
People
Sometimes
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The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.
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Quality
Mediums
Particular
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I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.
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Special
Trying
Way
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When you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.
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Aperture
Intensity
Lenses
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Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.
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Done
Might
Portraits
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To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.
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Art
Depth
Photography
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We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.
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Culture
Negative
Records
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I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking.
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Attention
Decision
Strong
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The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.
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Monsters
Piano
Trying
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Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the target in that way. I think it worked until I should not have been playing that way anymore.
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People
Strong
Thinking
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You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.
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Discovery
Painting
Speed
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Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).
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Individuality
Sound
Variation
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