My work is basically an outgrowth of the anger I feel about the human condition. The aspects of it that make me angry are our capacity for cruelty and the ability people have to ignore situations they don't like.

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness; and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat.

I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.