I'm Not Overly Analytical, And I Don't

Separate Two Particles, Place Them At Opposite Ends Of The Universe, Produce Some Effect In One, And The Other Will Be Identically Affected.

Sometimes I Make Films About Scenes Other Filmmakers Would Leave Out, So I Just Make The Film Out Of All The Things They Wouldn't Put In. Poetry Allows You To Do This More Than Prose, For Example.

[kenneth Koch] Taught Children In Public Schools In New York City To Write Poems And Told Them Down Worry About Rhyming, Don't Worry About Any Of That Stuff. You Know, Write A Poem Where You Mention Three Colors And Make It Five Lines - Or He Would Just Give Them, You Know, Little Strategies. And, Man, They Wrote Some Great Poems.

If You Have A Counterculture Band, You Put A Name On It, You Call Them Beatniks, And You Can Sell Something - Books Or Bebop. Or You Label Them As Hippies And You Can Sell Tie-dyed T-shirts.

Music Just Gives Me So Much Energy And Inspiration. Music And Literature In A Way Probably Influence Me More Than Cinema Does Because They're Different Forms And Yet Related. I Probably Know As Much About Music History As I Do About The History Of Cinema.