LA Weekly has a great article up about the forthcoming Banksy documentary Exit Through The Gift Shop. While it\'s nice to get some insight on the whole process behind the actual film I find that the quotes from Banksy himself are often the most entertaining:

On artist Thierry Guetta...
\"Gore Vidal once wrote that \'Every time a friend of mine succeeds, a little bit of me dies.\' I\'d amend that to \'Every time one of my friends borrows my ideas, mounts a huge art show and becomes a millionaire celebrity,\' a little bit of me wants him dead.\"

On LA...
\"In Los Angeles, you can rise without a trace. There\'s a moment in the film where you see a dude joining the back of the line at an art show. He says he doesn\'t know why he\'s there, but he joins it anyway. The first time I saw that, I laughed — it was the emperor\'s new clothes, the triumph of hype and hot air.

But now I\'ve thought about it. I love that guy — he\'s prepared to give anything a shot, to try something new. Cities like New York and London might pride themselves on being more hard-bitten and cynical than Tinseltown, but you have to ask yourself: What\'s actually so great about that?\"

And the best...

\"I\'m not so interested in convincing people in the art world that what I do is \'art,\' I\'m more bothered about convincing people in the graffiti community that what I do is really vandalism.\"

The movie isn\'t set to play anywhere near me anytime soon but I am holding out hope that the Belcourt or the Internet gets their hands on a copy soon.