Laurel Nakadate Quotes

• 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.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Bello, Pensamiento, Mirada

  "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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  Corazón, Pensamiento, Gente

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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

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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

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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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• 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

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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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• 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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• 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

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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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  Café, Pensamiento, Gente

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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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• Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there.

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  Riendo

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

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• I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm a pretty good judge of crazy versus sad. I prefer sad.

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  Crazy, Men, Strange Places

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• Discomfort and awkwardness are places where you feel things. I'm a big advocate for being happy. We can choose to live in a happy bubble. But part of being happy is understanding how sad things can be.

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  Understanding, Bigs, Discomfort

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• Presento lo que vamos a hacer como un simple punto de partida. Todos saben que es una obra de arte y que todo va a quedar grabado. Y nunca he tenido una experiencia en la que uno de estos hombres intentara aprovecharse de la situación. Si eran culpables de algo era de estar solos. Nunca fue que fueran violentos o peligrosos.

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  Lonely, Art, Simple

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• I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.

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  Thinking, Lenses, Gone

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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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• Heartbreak is when you're just far enough away from what you desire that you can feel it. Change is the Pangaea moment. I feel like I'm at this point in my life where I have created this place, this island in the ocean, and I'm happy there.

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  Ocean, Islands, Desire

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