On October 8 1963, a young actor named Dennis Hopper attended the first retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum in California for the French artist Marcel Duchamp. Having found himself at the reception party held at The Hotel Green, Hopper learned that Duchamp was also in attendance, signing any object or pieces of art for anyone who asked him to do so. Recalling that the Hotel Green’s entrance sign reminded him of a Duchamp artwork called Tu m’ (1918), Hopper (along with his then-wife Brooke…
I was very influenced by Jean-Luc Godard's work, his mixing of documentary and fiction, and by what Bergman did in Persona with blurring reality and illusion.