Michel Auder Quotes

You sometimes say things over the phone to friends that you don't really mean.

Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.

Little people have changed from the 1970s to now.

When people ask me what's the best thing I like, my head starts scrambling and I just can't think of anything. Depending on the day, I might say this or that. I really don't have any specific thing that I like better than others.

I always chose talkative people. And Viva, who was my first wife - we started making films together because she was extraordinarily creative. I was drawn to those people who tended to talk or act differently. The nice thing about using your friends as actors is they trust you. I wouldn't use footage of people that was destructive to them.

I'm in the art world so I use the art world a lot - or art world people as actors. I've also used television to criticize what I see on television. And now a lot of my work is made from the internet and a lot of it is made on my phone.

People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.

Technology changes so much that it has forced me to adapt.

I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.