It's Hard To Get Lost If You

For Me, The Music Is Always Like The Small Rowboat I Get Into At The Very Beginning Of My Process.

Film Relates To Almost Every Other Form Of Expression, But Poetry Is A Bit Abstract In Its Strength And Sometimes Even The White Spaces On The Page Are Evocative Almost As Much As Where The Text Is. Certain Poets Have Played With That.

I Never Start With The Story First, Which Is Maybe Obvious, Because The Narrative Line Of My Films Is Really Not That Strong Or Dramatic. They're Very Simple.

[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.

I Thought The Limits Of Control Could Be Interpreted In Two Ways: As The Limits Of One's Self-control; And As The Limits Of Allowing Other People's Control Over One's - Consciousness - Which I Kind Of Thought Was A Double Meaning That Was Appropriate.