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" My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements. "
Martine Syms
Really
Family
Background
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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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Weird
You
How
" 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. "
Martine Syms
Parents
Work
Money
" 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. "
Martine Syms
Thinking
Heritage
Language
" 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. "
Martine Syms
Why
Television
Think
" There's no reason to be ashamed of feeling good. "
Martine Syms
Feeling
Reason
Feeling Good
" My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real. "
Martine Syms
Real
Fiction
Feel
" I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way. "
Martine Syms
Experience
Way
Universal
" I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers. "
Martine Syms
Always
Interested
Manufacturing
" I grew up in Altadena, California. "
Martine Syms
Up
California
Grew
" I just have a deadpan sense of humor, I guess. "
Martine Syms
Sense
Humor
Sense Of Humor
" I guess I can be a little mischievous! "
Martine Syms
Mischievous
Guess
I Can
" 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. "
Martine Syms
Movies
Black
Good
" I think I do more fiction than autobiography. "
Martine Syms
More
Autobiography
Fiction
" 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. "
Martine Syms
Values
Way
TV
" 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. "
Martine Syms
Myself
Look
Growing
" 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. "
Martine Syms
City
Feeling
Way
" I grew up in Los Angeles. I watched lots of television; I still watch lots of television. "
Martine Syms
Lots
Los Angeles
Watch
" 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. "
Martine Syms
Work
History
Kind
" I'm really obsessed with this show right now called 'Power,' produced by 50 Cent. "
Martine Syms
Now
Power
Cent
" 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. "
Martine Syms
Early
She
First
" If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do. "
Martine Syms
Feel Good
Me
Simple
" Representation is a sort of surveillance. "
Martine Syms
Surveillance
Sort
Representation
" 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. "
Martine Syms
Relationships
Feel
Experience
" 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. "
Martine Syms
Own
Different
Think