Life Has No Plot, Why Must Films

If You Have A Counterculture Band, You Put A Name On It, You Call Them Beatniks, And You Can Sell Something - Books Or Bebop. Or You Label Them As Hippies And You Can Sell Tie-dyed T-shirts.

The Beauty Of A Movie Is That You Walk In, You Don't Know Anything About It, You Enter A World That's New To You, And That's The Magic Of Being Transported.

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.

It Was A Really Interesting Time In New York In The Late 70s And Early 80s, And The Music Scene Was Really, Really Interesting Because You Didn't Have To Be A Virtuoso To Make Music, It Was More About Your Desire To Express Things.

Consequently, I Get Inspiration From All Over The Place. But It's Not Like A Calculated Thing On My Part, Or A Way That I See Myself, You Know? I'm Just Interested In Things That Move Me, And I Don't Care Where They Come From. In Fact, I'm Interested If They Come From A Place I Wouldn't Expect, Or Would Seem Foreign To Me On Some Level.