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I questioned it. In the beginning, as to whether to do it.

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Like too didactic. Stay away from it. Too political. Stay away from it.

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Bin Laden, Bush, Queen... It was too specific.

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These are like puppets. You know.

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Hauser and Wirth, the gallery was looking to...

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Start a gallery in London, and they had some buildings they were looking at.

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Then, I was in London, and they invited me to go look at one building they were looking at.

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And it was this bank in Piccadilly. It had been an operating bank up until a few years before that.

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The teller windows were all there, everything was in place.

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And I went to see it one night, and it had a balcony, and I was kind of standing at the balcony.

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And "Wow it would be great to shoot a film of a video in this building."

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I'm interested in how the camera sees it and what the forms are.

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One way I see it is really quite beautiful. In another way, there is certain revulsion, of smashing food.

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The drawer gets completely caked with food, and it was never taken out of the drawer, later rots.

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In one layer, I kind of know that it creates a reaction, in another way, it's quite beautiful, rotting food, you know.

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This thing, the film is made like play. You know, like kid's putting on play.

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Film is made that way. You just go "Okay, I'll be the queen, you be Bush. Okay, we're gonna have a party now."

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That kind of direction as opposed to a scripted, constructed. Very loose, very much like pretend-and-play.

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I knew that this part where Bush would cut his head, you know, was all gonna happen. I knew that would take place.

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And I knew that queens would paint, but in a way I didn't know,

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It's just like an improvisation between these people with the paint and the knives and the cutting,

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And that would go on for a period of time, right.

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I knew, by putting myself in these three people that I knew in that situation, they would respond and improvise off of each other.

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I knew by putting certain things in the room to give them to use, they would feed off of all that.

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[smothered sound]... Don't move!

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I don't know whether I was looking for truth in there. I was just building a piece.

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I was making a work of art.