My Films Have Sort Of Amateur Elements,

America Was Built On An Attempted Genocide, Anyway. Guns Were Completely Necessary.

Specific Music Starts Feeding My Imagination And Gives Me A Landscape That Corresponds Somehow, In Some Abstract Way, To The World I'm Just Starting To Imagine.

[kenneth Koch] Taught Children In Public Schools In New York City To Write Poems And Told Them Down Worry About Rhyming, Don't Worry About Any Of That Stuff. You Know, Write A Poem Where You Mention Three Colors And Make It Five Lines - Or He Would Just Give Them, You Know, Little Strategies. And, Man, They Wrote Some Great Poems.

I Always Start With Characters Rather Than With A Plot, Which Many Critics Would Say Is Very Obvious From The Lack Of Plot In My Films - Although I Think They Do Have Plots - But The Plot Is Not Of Primary Importance To Me, The Characters Are.

I've Always Loved Films, Always. I Studied Literature And I Went To Columbia In New York And I Went To Paris For Part Of One Year And Ended Up Staying There.