Jeremijenko Quotes

#1. In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#2. No matter how much I plan the overall arc of the character, you get there day one on the film and you shooting certain scenes first, and it goes completely different to anything you ever thought of, and then it's done.

Lin Shaye

#3. Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#4. I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#5. I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#6. Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

Quentin Tarantino

#7. Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#8. The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#9. Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#10. There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#11. And I realized that leaving wouldn't be like I had imagined, like casting off a weight.

Ransom Riggs

#12. I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best!
I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

Walt Whitman

#13. Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#14. Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#15. A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

Natalie Jeremijenko

#16. To ensnare an elusive answer, camouflage the question.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#17. Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something.

Lauren Tarshis

#18. The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#19. If we are not in control of ourselves but instead let our impatience or anger interfere, then our work is no longer of any value.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#20. There was, for example, the theory that A'Tuin had come from nowhere and would continue at a uniform crawl, or steady gait, into nowhere, for all time. This theory was popular among academics.

Terry Pratchett

#21. I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!

Werner Herzog

#22. Juggling many projects and having all these accidental collisions that you can't predict enables a kind of comparative thinking. To focus on a single project from beginning to end is extremely difficult, not just for me, but for many people.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#23. What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone in the forest at night.

Thomas Merton

#24. Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#25. One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

Edwin Lefevre

#26. We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#27. I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#28. What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.

Jack W. Szostak

#29. I watch children a great deal; their idea is that rules are always negotiable, whereas you absolutely cannot joke at the airport about your toothpaste, and you cannot rollerblade in Grand Central Station. I keep running up against these things.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#30. The joy of awakening each morning knowing there were all those empty hours ahead to be filled only with work.

Philip Roth

#31. This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#32. I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

Natalie Jeremijenko