The things that can go wrong are particular to mediums and they make for qualities that really are of the medium.
Michael SnowI do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.
Michael SnowYou have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery particularly in De Kooning's paintings, great paintings. There's a lot of speed in his work and the speed produces things that only speed can produce.
Michael SnowWithin the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch).
Michael SnowSometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?
Michael SnowSocially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the target in that way. I think it worked until I should not have been playing that way anymore.
Michael SnowSay you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.
Michael SnowWhen you narrow down your range and are looking through just that narrow aperture of the lens, the intensity of what you see is so much greater.
Michael SnowIt is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.
Michael SnowWe've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.
Michael SnowI know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking.
Michael SnowTo extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.
Michael SnowI do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.
Michael SnowI really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.
Michael SnowThere is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.
Michael Snow