I Love Silent Films. The Future Is

[kenneth Koch] Taught Us To Be Playful, To Be Very Appreciative Of Other Poets, To Appreciate All Forms Of Expression. He Taught Us To Be Experimental.

I'm Like A Navigator And I Try To Encourage Our Collaboration And Find The Best Way That Will Produce Fruit. I Like Fruit. I Like Cherries, I Like Bananas.

My First Film I Made, "permanent Vacation," We Shot In 1979 For Like $12,000, Part Of Which I Got A Fake Car Loan For That Amos Poe Told Me You Could Do That. And, Yeah, I Had No Idea What I Was Doing. It Was Just Like, Well, We're Going To Try And Do This. Partly Because I Had Been Following Amos Poe And Eric Mitchell Around For About A Year, And I Worked On Some Of Eric's Films As A Sound Recordist And Stuff.

I Didn't Get The Degree Because In My Last Year, For My Thesis Film I Made A Feature Called Permanent Vacation And They'd Given Me A Scholarship, The Louis B Mayer Fellowship And They Made A Mistake.

I've Always Loved Films, Always. I Studied Literature And I Went To Columbia In New York And I Went To Paris For Part Of One Year And Ended Up Staying There.