The New York School Poets Are My

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.

One Of Our Favorite Joe Strummer Quotes Was, "no Input, No Output." Meaning, We're Going To Hear A Band, We're Going To Go To A Museum, Or We're Going To Go Hang Out With Some Writer That We Admire. We're Going To Get Some Input, Because If We Don't, Then We Have Nothing. It's A Circle. It's A Respiratory Thing.

I Like Marginal Characters, I Like Real People. I Learn More From Talking To My Plumber When He Comes To Fix My Toilet Than I Do From Meeting A Movie Star. I Think My Movies Are In The Same Vein As That.

In Hollywood Westerns Even In The Thirties And Forties, History Was Mythologized To Accommodate Some Kind Of Moral Code. And What Really Affects Me Deeply Is When You See It Taken To The Extent Where Native Americans Become Mythical People.

I Like Repetition, But I Really, Really Like Variations, Synchronistic Things That Happen Where You're Not Really Thinking About Them.