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I Had This Idea For A Long Time To Make A Film About A Poet In Paterson Named Patterson. I Wanted Him To Be Working Class. Eventually I Thought A Bus Was A Perfect Visual Way To Move Him, To Drift Him Through The City, To Have A Measured Kind Of Routine Lifestyle. And All These Things Kind Of Congealed Into The Film "paterson" Eventually.

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.

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When I Hear The Word Independent I Reach For My Revolver. At This Point, What The Hell Does That Mean? The English Patient Is An Independent Film... Hootie And The Blowfish Are Alternative Music. I'm The Queen Of Denmark. I Don't Know What It Means Anymore.