The Beauty Of Life Is In Small

If You Go Into A Bar In Most Places In America And Even Say The Word Poetry, You'll Probably Get Beaten Up. But Poetry Is A Really Strong, Beautiful Form To Me, And A Lot Of Innovation In Language Comes From Poetry.

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.

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.

I Love Riding On A Bus Now Because You're Looking Down On The World From Not Too High Of An Angle, But People On The Street Rarely Look Up Into The Bus. They're Sort Of Oblivious To This Big Giant Machine, You Know, Passing By. So There's Something Very Beautiful About The Angle That You Look At The World Through.

Steal From Anywhere That Resonates With Inspiration Or Fuels Your Imagination. Devour Old Films, New Films, Music, Books, Paintings, Photographs, Poems, Dreams, Random Conversations, Architecture, Bridges, Street Signs, Trees, Clouds, Bodies Of Water, Light And Shadows. Select Only Things To Steal From That Speak Directly To Your Soul. If You Do This, Your Work (and Theft) Will Be Authentic.