At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the opportunities available for mostly men. Those are the opportunities for a black actor to transcend 'black'… — 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 their absence, are present. — Martine Syms 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 about and… — 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 a bit of extra work myself. I was homeschooled, and it was a way that I could make money. My parents let us do these jobs, and I never got very far, but I was much more interested… — Martine Syms Copy Share
There's an uncanniness to living in Los Angeles, from the way you move through the city to the moments of feeling familiarity or deja… — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
Pop culture or advertising doesn't work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology. — Martine Syms Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value. — Martine Syms 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
There's a certain amount of absurdity to the idea that having extremely crisp clothes is what's going to get you through the door. And… — 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 squeezed into… — Martine Syms 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
People act like art is a white thing - or not for people of colour - when, really, so much culture and art comes from people of colour. I want everyone to get into what I am doing. So sometimes I don't like to work just in an art context because it feels like a lot of people aren't going… — Martine Syms Copy Share
