Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology. — Martine Syms Advertising Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value. — Martine Syms Business Copy Share Image
I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience… — Martine Syms Cinema Copy Share Image
My mum was very interested in art and liked to write, and my dad was a hobbyist photographer. — Martine Syms Art Copy Share Image
My family, my background... it just parallels really nicely with a lot of social and cultural movements. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I played sports growing up, and I worked out a lot. Then, when I moved back to L.A., I just fell off… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I grew up in Los Angeles. I watched lots of television; I still watch lots of television. — Martine Syms Los angeles Copy Share Image
I'm really obsessed with this show right now called 'Power,' produced by 50 Cent. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the… — Martine Syms Absurdity Copy Share Image
I think the medium or format of distributing things has its own characteristics. I think that an exhibition can communicate certain things… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV,… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's… — Martine Syms Cultural heritage Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the manufacturing of narratives, identities, and ideologies, and how they are embodied and negotiated by viewers. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
Growing up in a specific area has a certain sociological and economic reason, so I'm interested in using myself as a case… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I'm so voracious with books, movies, TV, and I'm always interested in the way that different cultural values are presented or, in… — Martine Syms Absence Copy Share Image
It's weird how the Internet changes everything. The kind of narrow casting... instead of reaching for a broad audience, you are reaching… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and… — Martine Syms Art Copy Share Image
I have said it before and I will continue to say that I don't think art is the most effective form of… — Martine Syms Art Copy Share Image
One of my early memories is of a white girl twirling in a circle. I realized later on that it was from… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
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… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those… — Martine Syms Actor Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is an uncanny place to live. It has many science fiction qualities. For example, when I'm standing in line at… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I was very conscious of the film industry - a lot of people, neighbors, worked in it. I actually grew up doing… — Martine Syms Cinema Copy Share Image
If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I grew up watching tons and tons of television. It was all I would do, especially during summer vacations. — Martine Syms Summer Copy Share Image
My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I never understood why anyone cared about the Kardashians until a friend, who's Latina, told me that she liked them because they're… — Martine Syms Family Copy Share Image
Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the economy of words and forms: jokes, aphorisms, copywriting, advertising, that way of writing when meaning has to be… — Martine Syms Advertising Copy Share Image
There's an uncanniness to living in Los Angeles, from the way you move through the city to the moments of feeling familiarity… — Martine Syms City Copy Share Image
I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
