Laurel Nakadate Quotes

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• Humans like to look. I think that voyeurism and exploitation are often used in the same sentence. But, in my opinion, voyeurism is a beautiful and delightful thing. There is nothing more intimate than really looking at someone.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Looks

  "Exclusive: Q&A with Visual Artist Turned Filmmaker Laurel Nakadate". Interview with Danielle Kourtesis, flavorwire.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I believe photography is about choosing to live, being brave. Looking is an act of courage. It's terrifying. It's possible to see too much, to witness things that we cannot hold.

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  Photography, Believe, Brave

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• [Photography] ties back into this feeling of wanting to watch things fall and the moment before they break. Fireworks are that way for me - this lovely thing that blows up and is gone. It all goes back to this desire to record things before they disappear - the original reason we take pictures, right?

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  Photography, Fall, Blow

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• The act of looking is brave. Especially if you look at things you can't handle. I think that most people do not look. If you're really paying attention you could have your heart broken twelve times a day. Most of the time we aren't looking.

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  Heart, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that thing that is larger than us, larger than the things we can point to, remember and claim, escorts us from dark into light.

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  Heart, Dark, Light

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• Although I get a lot of ideas from things that have happened in my life, I see the final product as a place where my imagination meets my experience. What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

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  Photography, Ideas, Imagination

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, www.believermag.com. October 2006.

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• Photography has saved my life, over and over again.

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  Photography, Saved

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• Also, I'm drawn to moments of ambiguity, when things could go right or they could go wrong. I'm interested in discomfort. Discomfort is a place where we're still close enough to comfort to understand our unhappiness. Most of the things we desire are things that can destroy us.

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  Desire, Comfort, Moments

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The most amazing moments are when something horrible is about to happen or has just happened. The iceberg falling into the ocean. That aching moment. You can see the pieces, you can see how they fit together, but you can't put them back together.

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  Ocean, Fall, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's always a problem - you've got to figure out a place to put your body. You've got to wake up in the morning and deal with the fact that you have this body to lug around.

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  Morning, Wake Up, Body

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• Polaroid, you know, goes against everything that photography is now. You can't make multiples. Only one exists. I love that. By the way, while we've been talking I've now seen a total of three people I know walking on 8th street.

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  Photography, Talking, People

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• Although I use myself in my videos, I really see myself as a character. When I look at myself, when I sit and edit, I never think, "That's me." I think, "This is a character, and how do I edit this to tell a story?"

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  Character, Thinking, Video

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

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  Real, Imagination, World

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!

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  Believe, Fiction, Use

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Tenderness and lust are just immature little brothers of love. Yes of course it was lust... but I'm not sure how evolved or resolved that lust was.

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  Brother, Lust, Immature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The amazing thing is that we live our lives with the hope that things will go right, that things will happen. And all along the way, we're inspired by the unknown and the unnameable. The minute you can fully describe something it's gone.

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  Gone, Way, Inspired

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• I think we're put out into the world to forge relationships with people. Those can be as small as buying coffee from someone or as large as a marriage. The important thing is that we try to make connections or have experiences with other humans. Otherwise what's the point of being on this earth?

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  Coffee, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The act of recording requires you to look at and handle and touch things, so yes - art is more than just looking and recording. It's messy and time consuming and people might fall in love and get hurt.

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  Falling In Love, Art, Hurt

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• I think it's a really good thing to put yourself in a situation where you feel really uncomfortable because I think things can come out of that discomfort.

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  Thinking, Good Things, Situation

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• A cupcake is like a great pop song. The whole world in less than three minutes. And it's impossible to have a bad cupcake. In New York you walk everywhere. So I'm always looking, always on the eternal search for the perfect cupcake. I take them very seriously. It's like hunting and gathering for me.

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  Song, New York, Hunting

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• I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.

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  Men, Trying, Connections

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

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  People, Fiction, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• As people who make things, we have the ability to think of the most vile, awful things we can imagine, but it doesn't mean we believe those things. I allow myself to go places in my videos that I would never go in my real life.And I think that there has to be that place where you can create and not have to be living it in real life.

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  Real, Believe, Mean

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I think it's a really good idea to be bumping into all kinds of people in all kinds of ways. So you make art with strangers. You give a reading. You move somewhere new and try to build a life. You grapple with humanity.

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  Art, Moving, Reading

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would always say I'm doing a video project. About dancing or birthday parties. Of course, the video becomes more than that. It goes deeper than that. But it's not a lie. It's a starting point.

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  Lying, Party, Dancing

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