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but I brought Thierry over to London

Even taking pictures, he would do it like...

NARRATOR: As Thierry persevered

So it was, like, that feeling that it was, like, a danger,

Film from this side over here.

but street art has a short lifespan,

they all tell you, Yeah, he doesn't have a phone,

I'm like a bird.

So it felt right to at least make something

saying that Thierry had found this huge warehouse

'cause what I do is in a bit of a legal gray area,

I choose a wall 'cause I like it,

I never met the cat till tonight,

and iconic visual style.

was that Thierry's street art documentary

[mutters] Fuck!

the more important it seems;

But this is, like, Space Invader.

Thierry's huge success and arrival in the art world.

So I said to Thierry,

You are a disgusting monster!

Hello, French people.

Thierry was ordered to slow things down,

When I met Zeus,

I mean, we had to, 'cause, you know,

So I think a lot of the people in the art world

All of our trains are stopped.

Thierry set about creating his own alter ego

You need to get your film out.

I do think that the whole phenomenon

of this camera-happy Frenchman.

and they're all in, like, fairly bad English.

of a lot of the final logistics that needed to happen.

it's like being an artist overnight.

and having 100 people working for him,

He goes in the corner

NARRATOR: But the ultimate validation

I'm gonna put some more cans all the way...

almost 200 pieces in a riot of themes and styles.

and you can get caught, you know?

# These lights in our street are ours #

is this unlikely...

like people who's not at Disneyland

Banksy had camouflaged his rented elephant

It's, like, a piece that I made.

He had arrived with his crew

saying, This will be a great place

So how did you like L.A. Weekly?

They were so... you know?

All the tape that I film, even if it was good,

You don't know Space Invader?

It was like a need to be captured.

that I thought might be able to help him out.

[breezy rock music]

I was filming Space Invader, but I wanted more.

with a remote control

Thierry was constantly meeting street artists.

and left Thierry there filming it.

it was like having the key of getting all these people.

so I don't really know what the moral is.

and change 'em around.

to transform thousands of hours of unwatched tapes

It's just so much work to do, prices, and...

I mean, he was, like, just incredible.

for what was now widely tipped to be

with one exception.

It was like a spiral, and I just fall in it.

I was so much focused on it that I put all my money in it.

The way it started,

and they really believe it.

And obviously, for that, you go to jail for ten years.

If Thierry can pull it off, then amazing,

Now no serious contemporary art collection

I never went home again.

It's Lady Di instead of the queen.

giving Thierry his first insight into the value of his work.

and sort of try to, you know, come out

It just seemed to go on and on.

to see where you're gonna put it.

I mean, I don't know how to make a film,

They look at me like, Who is this?

was like a bit of a release for me, you know?

I was putting my life on...

but then, there aren't supposed to be any rules,

and I was gonna throw it off a building, just like...

I really liked him.

and he's kinda crazy.

but he doesn't care.

I don't have nothing with you guys,

Red light. I stay.

which paintings to frame and hang.

Um, you already got your interview,

I take the camera... I take him...

but before long, his stencils were appearing all over Britain.

or whether it's that he's passionate

would arrive with a bang.

three guys behind me; four guys behind me.

looking for sculptors or artists who could work in papier-mâché.

the grandfather of Batman.

in the gallery's landscape room.

# And they make our TVs blind us #

and I was just having fun,

so you don't really know where to start.