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to L.A.'s more fashion-conscious citizens.

couldn't get any more intense,

[spray paint can rattling]

was now running far ahead

Amanda always thought that he was weird,

In my own house, when the kids grow up,

# Tonight the streets are ours #

and I went on the, like, Indiana Jones ride,

somewhere brainwash your face.

I think I got accepted, you know?

Could I just have a quick word with you, please?

# Tonight the streets are ours #

He was even more than I expected.

of Thierry's obsession with street art,

- In the big space? - Put them all out.

Banksy had started out as a provincial graffiti artist,

It didn't stop.

# Those people #

Is Mickey Mouse gonna be there today?

So why did you do him?

at the Museum of Modern Art or something,

Thierry's creative process, I guess,

on this exciting new market.

I fall, like, making the art.

Lot number 33A, Banksy,

Okay, you show me,

and we scan the image,

felt compelled to break through the gates.

and I don't have nothing with this guy,

I'm playing chess.

NARRATOR: Banksy had put Thierry well and truly on the spot.

[bass-heavy rock music]

It was magic that this person let me film, you know?

So after Thierry withstood interrogation

Okay, okay, there is one thing,

# Those people #

And because I never made a movie before

and pointing his camera at anything that moved

I mean, I'm lucky I didn't get caught that day.

[spray paint can hissing]

Yeah. [laughter]

or if he copies Banksy

# Oh, the trigger of time #

he at last glimpsed the enormity

and I would go even up, up more to have the shot that is great.

I think it's exploring

and every person I told about him bought something,

I was, like, addict.

but not dressed like security, but look like, you know,

you look in one, and you open,

NARRATOR: With no leads to go on,

He asked me to promote the show for him,

All the people who was working with him,

and he wanted to know if I could build him

refused to discuss security arrangements today

- Is this your job or what? - It's my passion.

It's cast in bronze, or it's oil on canvas,

like kind of a cartoon character.

I have never seen someone with so much goddamn art

I just want to talk to you, dude.

but I said that I would do it.

and he knows where all the best walls are in L.A.

because it seemed like a good idea:

There you go. That's good.

to ignore the things right in front of us.

And if he didn't know how to do any of these things himself,

You ask the question, Why me? in the end.

until in 1999, on a family holiday to France,

[ominous music]

work their way up from small beginnings,

Maybe he got a bit lucky.

So desperate were they

So how long you been doing this?

Then I went out,

Just wait one second. Okay.

to make a piece about Guantánamo Bay

It's, like, to trying to do some lines

NARRATOR: The following spring, Thierry returned to England.

I liked the idea of the more stickers that are out there,

# They got nothing in their souls #

That's fine, sir.

I guess who isn't inspired by other things?

four different-color Post-its in here.

and I'd put the price that is $400.

he did a really good job of stashing the tape in his sock...

than getting the show's surprise guest

NARRATOR: A few months after Thierry had seen him in London,

he's inspired by other things.

because when you got them like this,

His work seemed to be everywhere,