What I try to do is reinvigorate strategies and clichés I find in Hollywood movies. At a certain point I had these huge folders, each one classified according to subject matter or genre: people with guns, people kissing, Indians and cowboys falling off horses, getting shot, getting shot with arrows - almost every plot device. Then I cropped the cheap, recycled imagery to give exhausted images new meaning, or at least something other than their original meaning. I'm basically reassembling atoms to give them a meaning that's more au courant.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I will not make anymore boring art.

Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.

Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.