I'm Completely Intuitive And I Don't Like

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.

Nothing Is Original. Steal From Anywhere That Resonates With Inspiration Or Fuels Your Imagination Authenticity Is Invaluable; Originality Is Non-existent. And Don’t Bother Concealing Your Thievery - Celebrate It If You Feel Like It.

I'd Wanted To Be A Writer And When I Came Back To New York Worked As A Musician Too, But I Found My Writing Starting To Get More And More Referential To Cinema.

I Always Start With Characters Rather Than With A Plot, Which Many Critics Would Say Is Very Obvious From The Lack Of Plot In My Films - Although I Think They Do Have Plots - But The Plot Is Not Of Primary Importance To Me, The Characters Are.

To Me, Everything Is Endless Variations On Other Things. Like Waves In The Ocean. They Continue To Turn Over On Each Other, And They're All Slightly Different. I Don't Know If Originality Is Possible. Is It Even Necessary? Because Everything Is Different Than What Came Before, But It's All Branches From The Same Tree. Originality Is Overrated, But What You Do With Things Is Always Different.