Life Has No Plot, Why Must Films

I Love Rehearsing Because In Rehearsals There Are No Mistakes, Nothing Is Wrong, Some Things Apply Or Lead You To Focus On The Character And The Things That Don't Apply Are Equally Valuable Because They Lead You To Towards What Does.

My First Film I Made, "permanent Vacation," We Shot In 1979 For Like $12,000, Part Of Which I Got A Fake Car Loan For That Amos Poe Told Me You Could Do That. And, Yeah, I Had No Idea What I Was Doing. It Was Just Like, Well, We're Going To Try And Do This. Partly Because I Had Been Following Amos Poe And Eric Mitchell Around For About A Year, And I Worked On Some Of Eric's Films As A Sound Recordist And Stuff.

I Never Start With The Story First, Which Is Maybe Obvious, Because The Narrative Line Of My Films Is Really Not That Strong Or Dramatic. They're Very Simple.

I'd Wanted To Be A Writer And When I Came Back To New York Worked As A Musician Too, But I Found My Writing Starting To Get More And More Referential To Cinema.

It's Hard To Get Lost If You Don't Know Where You're Going.