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Michael Snow, CC (born December 10, 1928) is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music. His best-known films are Wavelength (1967) and La Région Centrale (1971), with the former regarded as a milestone in avant-garde cinema.

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I try to make each film a different film.

Different, Film, Make, Trying

Socially in my alliances I wanted to just have a strong alliance and making decisions but not putting it out there but letting other people be the target in that way. I think it worked until I should not have been playing that way anymore.

Alliances, Making, People, Putting, Strong, Thinking

I don't watch a lot of reality TV.

Reality, Tvs, Watch, Watches

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.

Aperture, Greater, Intensity, Lenses, See

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).

Individuality, Personal, Sound, Variation

I do a lot of challenges I run marathons and stuff like that and I like to challenge myself.

Challenge, Challenges, Running, Stuff

It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.

Different, Mediums, People, Sometimes, Understandable

We've been able to record the music of cultures that did not have recording, and thus preserve it. But there is also a negative aspect to this and that is the effect of the intrusion of the West on such cultures.

Aspect, Culture, Cultures, Music, Negative, Records

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

Acceptance, Chance, Film, Films, Improvisation

People's vocabulary has expanded.

Expanded, People, Vocabulary

I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.

Individual, Special, Things, Trying, Way

I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.

People, Tough, Used

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

Caused, Fighting, Film, Films, Kind, Riots

I am a little bit of a foul mouth and I just like to give it back to people.

Back, Giving, Mouth, Mouths, People

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.

Discovery, Painting, Speed, Things, Produce

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires. . . making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph.

Art, Depth, Photograph, Photography, Spectator, Undergoes

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

Irritated, Littles, Name, Names, Quite

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

Know, Knows, People, Say, Sometimes, Talk