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.

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

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.