Christian Marclay

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think. ”

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood. ”

If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it. ”

These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share - music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it. ”

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it. ”

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way. ”

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways. ”

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them. ”

We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it's entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes. ”

People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove. ”