You have to act and this is something that happened in abstract expressionism too, it was a discovery … - Michael Snow

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If I make two films in a year, they'll be different. This is my style - I can't have just one way.

Michael Snow

You 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.

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Within 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).

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Say 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.

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Speed is a way to escape consciousness and just act.

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When 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.

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Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

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