American - Artist | 1988 -
Representation is a sort of surveillance.
Martine Syms
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There's no reason to be ashamed of feeling good.
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I guess I can be a little mischievous!
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I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're a family who look like hers. I was able to appreciate them differently.
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When I'm working on something, even when I don't know exactly where it's going, I have a sense of what I'd like to make. So maybe doing things right is following that sense even when I stop trusting myself. The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.
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One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from that show 'Small Wonder' - the oldest I could have been when I was watching it was four or five, but it's one I think about a lot. It's stuck in my head, this terrible Fox television show.
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I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.
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I definitely think an on-screen experience is universal, in a way.
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I'm really obsessed with this show right now called 'Power,' produced by 50 Cent.
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My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements.
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At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the opportunities available for mostly men. Those are the opportunities for a black actor to transcend 'black' movies. They have to play a black icon.
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It's weird how the Internet changes everything. The kind of narrow casting... instead of reaching for a broad audience, you are reaching for a more targeted audience.
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