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