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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.84,0:00:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul McCarthy: "Piccadilly Circus"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.96,0:00:18.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I questioned it, in the beginning, as to whether to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.69,0:00:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like, too didactic. Stay away from it. Too political. Stay away from it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.44,0:00:33.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bin Laden, Bush, Queen... It was too specific.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.12,0:00:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are like puppets, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.72,0:00:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hauser and Wirth--the gallery--was looking to...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.07,0:00:58.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Start a gallery in London, and they had some buildings they were looking at.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.50,0:01:05.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was in London, and they invited me to go look at one building they were looking at.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.79,0:01:13.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it was this bank in Piccadilly. It had been an operating bank, I think, up until a few years before that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.73,0:01:19.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, the teller windows were all there, everything was in place.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.33,0:01:29.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I went to see it one night. It had a balcony, and I was kind of standing at the balcony.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.59,0:01:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, "Wow it would be great to shoot a film or a video in this building."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.53,0:01:44.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm interested in how the camera sees it and what the forms are.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.57,0:01:57.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One way I see it is really quite beautiful. In another way, there's certain revulsion of smashing food.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.88,0:02:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The drawer gets completely caked with food, and it was never taken out of the drawer, and later rots.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.22,0:02:18.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like in one layer, I kind of know that it creates a reaction. In another way, it's quite beautiful, the rotting food, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.27,0:02:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This thing of.. Films made like play. You know, like kids putting on plays.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.79,0:02:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or films made that way. You just go "Okay, I'll be the Queen, you be Bush. Okay, we're going to have a party now."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.06,0:02:53.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That kind of direction, as opposed to a scripted, constructed, very loose, very much like pretend-and-play.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.27,0:03:05.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that this part where Bush would cut his head, you know, was all going to happen. I knew that would take place.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.33,0:03:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I knew the Queens would paint. But in a way I didn't know...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.90,0:03:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was just like an improvisation between these people with the paint and the knives and the cutting,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.02,0:03:22.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that that would go on for a period of time, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.41,0:03:33.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew, by putting myself and these three people that I knew in that situation, they would respond and improvise off of each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.89,0:03:41.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I knew by putting certain things in the room to give them to use, they would feed off of all that.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.42,0:03:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[smothered sound]... Don't move!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.01,0:03:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know whether I was looking for truth in there. I was just building a piece.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.76,0:03:55.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was making a work of art.