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.

That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.

I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.