00:00Tell me about meeting Mark Hogan Camp.
00:06He's the sweetest guy.
00:09He's exactly who you would want him to be.
00:12I've never met anybody who I'd seen a documentary about,
00:15so I didn't know what to expect
00:18other than who I had seen depicted in the documentary.
00:22And he was exactly that guy.
00:25He is without any sort of pretense.
00:29He lacks any sort of cynicism.
00:31He's earnest and self-deprecating.
00:35But he also has an understanding of how other people view him and his world.
00:39And he has a sense of humor about it.
00:42And he gets that it's quirky.
00:44He understands that.
00:45Yeah, I know some people think this is so weird.
00:48But he laughs about it.
00:50And it doesn't matter to him.
00:52So I think he's got a real nice level of self-confidence there.
00:55But he's also very shy and very private.
00:58And doesn't understand all the fuss that's being made about he and his art.
01:04Were you able to identify a lot with his character or with his personality?
01:08I mean, such an extreme character.
01:11Yeah, I mean, identify with.
01:14It really affected me.
01:16I think the themes of his story moved me in a really deep way.
01:25His story is all about love and hatred and acceptance and perseverance and will.
01:35There's just a real joy to his story.
01:39And after I saw the documentary, it made me feel uplifted and good.
01:45And I just wanted to hold it.
01:47Because he just felt like a...
01:49The whole thing felt like a beacon of light to me.
01:51And that's why I wanted to be a part of this.
01:54Because that...
01:56His story and how he took something so ugly, really.
02:01This terrible hate crime.
02:05And turned it into art.
02:07Turned it into something beautiful.
02:09Hmm.
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