The New York School Poets Are My

[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'm Not An Analytical Person, So It's Not My Job To Even Know What The Hell The Thing Meant. It's Not My Problem. I'm Just Supposed To Do It. Sometimes, People Have Explained Things To Me That I Might Have Been Semi-conscious Of Or Not.

I Like To Rehearse With The Actors Scenes That Are Not In The Script And Will Not Be In The Film Because What We're Really Doing Is Trying To Establish Their Character, And Good Acting To Me Is About Reacting.

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.

I Think Of Myself As An Amateur Filmmaker, Not A Professional, In The Sense That "amateur" Means Love Of Something, For The Form.