[iggi Pop] Is Very Self-taught, Self-educated, But,

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.

When I Left Ohio When I Was 17 And Ended Up In New York And Realised That Not All Films Had The Giant Crab Monsters In Them, It Really Opened Up A Lot Of Things For Me.

For Me Music Is Totally Freeing, And It's Its' Own Language Too. You Follow It, In A Way.

I Don't Like American Football. I Think It's Boring And Ridiculous And Predictable. But Baseball Is Very Beautiful. It's Played On A Diamond.

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.