We live in a world in which everything's interpreted for us. I'm interested in creating a different experience. |
Well, lo and behold, the greatest thing that ever happened in my life, a month later Alvin Cooperman called back and told my father that I had tremendous talent! |
What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play. |
When, at fifteen years of age, I started going every weekend to New York, the plays that I loved were always the weird plays. |
Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up. |
You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army. |
You see, I thought of myself as making minimalist art like the music of Lamonte Young, or the paintings of Frank Stella. |