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That's fine, sir.
For $550,000.
I have never seen someone with so much goddamn art
click!
Okay, okay, there is one thing,
# Oh, the trigger of time #
There you go. That's good.
So why did you do him?
Then I went out,
I was, like, addict.
I mean, I'm lucky I didn't get caught that day.
but I said that I would do it.
I liked the idea of the more stickers that are out there,
NARRATOR: Banksy had put Thierry well and truly on the spot.
It's, like, to trying to do some lines
I think I got accepted, you know?
Maybe he got a bit lucky.
I just want to talk to you, dude.
- Is this your job or what? - It's my passion.
And because I never made a movie before
It was magic that this person let me film, you know?
because it seemed like a good idea:
and we scan the image,
refused to discuss security arrangements today
and every person I told about him bought something,
[spray paint can hissing]
Lot number 33A, Banksy,
# Those people #
and pointing his camera at anything that moved
You ask the question, Why me? in the end.
So after Thierry withstood interrogation
And it's like,
but not dressed like security, but look like, you know,
NARRATOR: With no leads to go on,
[spray paint can rattling]
In my own house, when the kids grow up,
to L.A.'s more fashion-conscious citizens.
Is Mickey Mouse gonna be there today?
until in 1999, on a family holiday to France,
and I went on the, like, Indiana Jones ride,
and I would go even up, up more to have the shot that is great.
and I'd put the price that is $400.
[laughs]
# Those people #
he's inspired by other things.
or if he copies Banksy
because when you got them like this,
NARRATOR: The following spring, Thierry returned to England.
Amanda always thought that he was weird,
he at last glimpsed the enormity
It's cast in bronze, or it's oil on canvas,
NARRATOR: A few months after Thierry had seen him in London,
and I don't have nothing with this guy,
And if he didn't know how to do any of these things himself,
I'm playing chess.
on this exciting new market.
# #
couldn't get any more intense,
was now running far ahead
somewhere brainwash your face.
to make a piece about Guantánamo Bay
he did a really good job of stashing the tape in his sock...
felt compelled to break through the gates.
He was even more than I expected.
So desperate were they
I feel good.
in some ways,
It didn't stop.
than getting the show's surprise guest
# Tonight the streets are ours #
Thierry's creative process, I guess,
- In the big space? - Put them all out.
like kind of a cartoon character.
and he wanted to know if I could build him
[bass-heavy rock music]
Okay, you show me,
work their way up from small beginnings,
I guess who isn't inspired by other things?
[ominous music]
So how long you been doing this?
Yeah. [laughter]
Banksy had started out as a provincial graffiti artist,
He asked me to promote the show for him,
at the Museum of Modern Art or something,
All the people who was working with him,
Could I just have a quick word with you, please?
His work seemed to be everywhere,
I'm nobody.
and he knows where all the best walls are in L.A.
four different-color Post-its in here.
$12,000.
Just wait one second. Okay.
to ignore the things right in front of us.
# They got nothing in their souls #
# #
I fall, like, making the art.
# #
I think it's exploring
you look in one, and you open,
# Tonight the streets are ours #
of Thierry's obsession with street art,