I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel like when I try to describe it, it doesn't sound believable. It just sounds like you're lying. And I see it on the faces of my younger friends.

If the work is the horse, a career makes a great cart.

I like getting stuff out of the way so you can see something clearly, see it sharply, have it be new again.

The career has to support the making and can offer a platform, can offer you a voice in the world. And that's an incredible thing. But it's complicated and seductive and weird and tricky. I think you have to keep figuring that out your whole life.

I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.

I'd grown up poor; I had no idea what it was like to be comfortable.

I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.