Each One Of Us Is A Set

I Like Actors Who Just Become That Person And Then React, And Adam [driver] Is Completely Reactive In That Way. So Every Day Working With Him Was Really A Pleasure. And He's In Almost Every Scene In The Film, So The Poor Guy Had To Work The - Almost The Entire 30 Days Of Our Film Shoot. But, Yeah, He Was Really A Pleasure, And I Really Love What He - How He Embodied This Character.

I Visited Paterson Many Years Ago - 20 Some Years Ago As A Kind Of Day Trip Because Of William Carlos Williams, Because Of Allen Ginsberg Having Lived There. And I Went To The Great Falls And Sat Really In The Exact Same Spot As Adam Driver Does As Paterson. And I Walked Around The Factory Buildings, And I Was Rereading - I Was Reading At The Time The Epic Length Poem "paterson" By Williams.

The Beauty Of A Movie Is That You Walk In, You Don't Know Anything About It, You Enter A World That's New To You, And That's The Magic Of Being Transported.

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.

America Is A Very Venal Place; Everything Has To Be Sold There. You Can Repackage Your Own S**t And Sell It If It Is Marketed In The Right Way. The Motivation Is To Sell. It's So Illogical And Strange To Me. It's Such A Disposable Culture And Yet I Feel Comfortable Being American.