I Think Of Myself As An Amateur

I've Always Loved Films, Always. I Studied Literature And I Went To Columbia In New York And I Went To Paris For Part Of One Year And Ended Up Staying There.

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 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.

As Soon As You Start Making A Film That's Expensive Then The Studio Wants Total Control Over All Elements Of It Because They Want To Get All Their Money Back. If You Make A Smaller Film You Can Try A Lot More Things Because You Can Have Control Over It And Not Just Be A Hired Director. The Lower The Budget The More Freedom You Have.

Film Relates To Almost Every Other Form Of Expression, But Poetry Is A Bit Abstract In Its Strength And Sometimes Even The White Spaces On The Page Are Evocative Almost As Much As Where The Text Is. Certain Poets Have Played With That.