Michel Auder

Born :

1945

I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.

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You sometimes say things over the phone to friends that you don't really mean.

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Little people have changed from the 1970s to now.

I'm in the art world so I use the art world a lot - or art world people as actors. I've also used television to criticize what I see on television. And now a lot of my work is made from the internet and a lot of it is made on my phone.

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Technology changes so much that it has forced me to adapt.

I always chose talkative people. And Viva, who was my first wife - we started making films together because she was extraordinarily creative. I was drawn to those people who tended to talk or act differently. The nice thing about using your friends as actors is they trust you. I wouldn't use footage of people that was destructive to them.

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People have a tendency to think I was part of Warhol's Factory - I never was. I've always been independent.

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Most of my work is okay to look at on a TV screen or a flat screen, but this is actually much better in a theatre.

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When people ask me what's the best thing I like, my head starts scrambling and I just can't think of anything. Depending on the day, I might say this or that. I really don't have any specific thing that I like better than others.

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