My Films Are About The Little Things

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.

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.

Stupid F***ing White Man.

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.

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.