Life Has No Plot, Why Must Films

I Visited Paterson Many Years Ago - 20 Some Years Ago As A Kind Of Day Trip Because Of William Carlos Williams, Because Of Allen Ginsberg Having Lived There. And I Went To The Great Falls And Sat Really In The Exact Same Spot As Adam Driver Does As Paterson. And I Walked Around The Factory Buildings, And I Was Rereading - I Was Reading At The Time The Epic Length Poem "paterson" By Williams.

If You Make A Film, That Magic Is Not There, Because You Were There While Shooting It. After Writing A Film And Shooting It And Being In The Editing Room Every Day, You Can Never See It Clearly. I Think Other People's Perception Of Your Film Is More Valid Than Your Own, Because They Have That Ability To See It For The First Time.

Music Just Gives Me So Much Energy And Inspiration. Music And Literature In A Way Probably Influence Me More Than Cinema Does Because They're Different Forms And Yet Related. I Probably Know As Much About Music History As I Do About The History Of Cinema.

I Start With Actors That I Know Personally Or I Know Their Work, And There Are Things About Their Work Or Their Presence Or Their Own Personality That Make A Character, That Exaggerates Some Qualities And Suppresses Other Qualities. It's Always A Real Collaboration For Me.

I Hate Those Live Action Versions Of Animated Cartoons. It Ruins Everything, The Whole Point Of Cartoons Is To Get Away From Photographs. I Mean It Would Be Stupid To Say That Cartoons Are Better Than Photographs But Its True.