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Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

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Seek the insignificant small but essential qualities, essential to life

Essential, Essentials, Insignificant, Life, Quality
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Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town. . Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs and desperations are most dramatically split open. At the Plastic Inevitable it is All Here and Now and the Future.

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In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.

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I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life.

2007, Exhausting, Film, Internet, Stuff, Website

Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.

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There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

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