Of course it's a lot easier for me if I think of myself as a character to say certain things; it gives me a kind of liberty to say things that I otherwise wouldn't. It's always my hope that it will come across as me and not me at the same time. Moyra Davey More Quotes by Moyra Davey More Quotes From Moyra Davey To be making something as yet unformed, unknown - to be living in a deferred moment - is the most seductive way to exist. Moyra Davey seductivemomentsway I've always made things either paintings, drawing, photographs, or writing. It's all kind of the same thing. It all involves saying more, I guess. It involves separating life, breaking off this chunk that's devoted to making something. There's a lot of pleasure in that, but there can also be a lot of struggle. There's always this fantasy that you could just live life and not have to think about it. Moyra Davey live-lifestrugglewriting When you hate the thing that you're working on, that's when you question it. Moyra Davey hate I always credit; I never just steal something. I'm very much a product of everything that I've read and seen and heard or listened to. Moyra Davey stealingcreditheard Describing some kinds of feelings comes across as too excessive in the first person. If you put it in the third person, you're taking a little bit of a distance, and that way it becomes more apprehensible to a viewer. You're always riding this fine line of risking saying too much, do you know what I mean? When you feel you're in that area, if you shift the address a little bit it can alter it. Moyra Davey distancefeelingsmean You can't be judgmental. You have to do your best not to be, I think. Moyra Davey judgmentalthinking I actually like a film in a gallery, because you don't have to show up at a certain time to see something, you can just walk in whenever. I like that freedom to be able to see something anytime. I personally don't mind watching something knowing that it's not the beginning and then just letting it run its cycle. Moyra Davey knowingmindrunning
