For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

Some cameras are heavier and need to be on tripods. Others are small enough to hide in your pocket. There are places where you don't want to feel like you are disturbing anything, so I may use a camera like that.

I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together.