I'd Wanted To Be A Writer And

It's Hard To Get Lost If You Don't Know Where You're Going.

[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 Had This Idea For A Long Time To Make A Film About A Poet In Paterson Named Patterson. I Wanted Him To Be Working Class. Eventually I Thought A Bus Was A Perfect Visual Way To Move Him, To Drift Him Through The City, To Have A Measured Kind Of Routine Lifestyle. And All These Things Kind Of Congealed Into The Film "paterson" Eventually.

When I Hear The Word Independent I Reach For My Revolver. At This Point, What The Hell Does That Mean? The English Patient Is An Independent Film... Hootie And The Blowfish Are Alternative Music. I'm The Queen Of Denmark. I Don't Know What It Means Anymore.

I'm Still Trying To Learn How To Do It, I'm Still Trying To Figure Out How To Make Films, But, Yeah, It Started Then [in 1979].