We go to the movies to forget about time, to be in a dream state. And it’s entertainment, distraction, from the fact that everything is kind of crumbling in front of our eyes. – Christian Marclay
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. – Christian Marclay
It’s good to get away from the editing suite. It’s very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long. – Christian Marclay
If the music in a groove fits with what you’re playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn’t work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn’t work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don’t do that too often. – Christian Marclay
You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way. – Christian Marclay
Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them. – Christian Marclay
Every person’s remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think. – Christian Marclay
These things I sample, or clip, are things that we share – music, films, sounds. It triggers a layer of participation from the audience as they recognize the material and remember it. – Christian Marclay
When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together. – Christian Marclay
I’ve never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat ‘The Clock’ like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways. – Christian Marclay
‘Record Without A Cover’ was about allowing the medium to come through, making a record that was not a document of a performance but a record that could change with time, and would be different from one copy to the next. – Christian Marclay
People who care about records are always giving me a hard time. I mean, I would destroy records in performances, and break them, and whatever I could do to them to create a sound that was something else than just the sound that was in the groove. – Christian Marclay
The process of editing is what I enjoy most – putting the pieces together and making sense out of them. – Christian Marclay
If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it. – Christian Marclay
I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I’m referencing American ’60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture. – Christian Marclay
