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" I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it. "

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" Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image. "

" Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them. "

" It's very difficult to understand, but I'm looking for a nonnarrative, multiscreen, present-tense cinema. Narrative is an artifact created by us. It does not exist at all in nature; it is a construct made by us, and I wonder whether we need the narrative anymore. "

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" I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them. "

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Seeing

Looking

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