Christian Marclay Quotes

I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.

Working with my hands keeps me sane.

I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.

I'm very hands-on with my own music.

I have to speak for myself. As far as videos go - casting, the artwork, everything - I'm completely hands-on. You have to be if you want your points across.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

I don't know how to make movies without getting my hands dirty.

I'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.

I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.

Because I loved dance, I always need to be physical and moving, so photography that is more tactile made more sense.

I like working with my hands, need to do that more often.

I work very physically. I don't like to intellectualize too much about what we're doing, or analyze it.

Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.

Being producer you're still going to have to sell somebody who's going to give you the money on the idea and everything like that. But it does give you a little bit more control if you're thinking in that creative process; it gives you more control to tell the story you want to tell rather than sort of just reading a script that somebody else wrote and says, "Yes, please, you can hire me for this job." So it's a little bit more hands-on, a little bit more closer to the heart.

Design is something you have to put your hand to.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.