Even though you're reading something, it's as though that person who wrote it is speaking to you. It's a form of conversation, really.

I had always taken photos - always, always taken photos, made movies.

I went to Our Lady of Mercy, parochial school and I started Fordham Prep, but that only lasted about a year and then I - to me, it was like going to some kind of concentration camp. I was not very happy. And I only went there because that's where my brother went, really.

I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway.

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.

The idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what art would be about. But that had more to do with the kind of general understanding of what the hell you're doing, you know.

So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.