I Started Working With Friends Of Mine

I Still Consider Myself To Be An Amateur Filmmaker. And I Say That Because In The Latin Origin Of The Word Amateur Is The Word Love, And It's Love Of A Form, Whereas Professional Implies Something You Do For Money Or For Work.

It Meant A Kind Of Real Liberation Of Expression. It Embraced Amateurism In A Way That I Still Am Inspired By. It Was Not About Trying To Get, You Know, Stadium Gigs Or Even Commercial Radio Play Or Even Record Deals For That Matter. It Was About Saying Something 'cause You Meant It, And Expressing Something That You Felt. And That Was Primary For That - Whatever The Scene, Whatever Punk Rock Means, It Was Very, Very Important To Me, Very Formative.

The Limits Of Control Is Not Surrealism, But It Is An Experiment In Which Expectations Are Deliberately Removed: Expectations For Narrative Form, For Action In A Film, For Certain Emotional Content. We Wanted To Remove Those Things And See If We Could Still Make A Film That Was A Beautiful Film Experience, With Deliberately Removing Things Many People Would Expect.

I Know From The Past, Critics Often Say My Films Don't Have Any Plot, That Kind Of Thing. I'm Used To Being Told, "yeah, It's Slow And Has No Plot."

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.