I Think Of Poets As Outlaw Visionaries

I Even Think The Commercial Element Of New American Directors Is Really Fertile Right Now. There Are A Lot Of Filmmakers With Very Particular Visions, Like Sofia Coppola And Wes Anderson And P.t. Anderson And Alexander Payne And Peter Sollett And Harmony Korine And Vincent Gallo. At Least They're Making Films That They Choose To Make, And They're On Their Own. That's Positive To Me. This Is Not A Dead Period For American Cinema At All.

I'm Not Overly Analytical, And I Don't Set Out To Make Something Particularly.

It Was A Really Interesting Time In New York In The Late 70s And Early 80s, And The Music Scene Was Really, Really Interesting Because You Didn't Have To Be A Virtuoso To Make Music, It Was More About Your Desire To Express Things.

As Soon As You Start Making A Film That's Expensive Then The Studio Wants Total Control Over All Elements Of It Because They Want To Get All Their Money Back. If You Make A Smaller Film You Can Try A Lot More Things Because You Can Have Control Over It And Not Just Be A Hired Director. The Lower The Budget The More Freedom You Have.

If Anyone Tells You There Is Only One Way, Their Way, Get As Far Away From Them As Possible, Both Physically And Philosophically.