In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

I just want to create situations where people forget time.

I believe that life is shorter; that is why we have to make experience longer.

Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, "Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll do the performance just for the camera." He set up everything and I told him to go outside and smoke a cigarette. Come back when I finish. Don't touch the camera. This was the way how I've done most everything after that.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

When I did "Seven Easy Pieces," I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had to really go through the documentation, look through the sources, to ask the witnesses who saw it.