I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.

Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.

The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.