The Counterculture Is Always Repackaged And Made

I Didn't Get My Degree At Nyu; I Got It Later, They Gave Me An Honourary One.

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.

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.

Film Relates To Almost Every Other Form Of Expression, But Poetry Is A Bit Abstract In Its Strength And Sometimes Even The White Spaces On The Page Are Evocative Almost As Much As Where The Text Is. Certain Poets Have Played With That.

I Have To Tell Everyone That When I Finish A Film And It Goes Out And Is Released, I Never Look At My Films Again. I Don't Like Looking Back. I Don't Even Like Talking About 'em! So I'm Really Digging Back In My Memory Because I Don't Like To Sit And Look At My Films Again.