There Is Something Very Pleasurable About Watching

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'm Not Overly Analytical, And I Don't Set Out To Make Something Particularly.

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.

I Like That Cartoons Are Now Not Only Animated Drawings, They Are A Way Of Doing Something: 'that Song Sounds Very Cartoony', Or 'he Has A Cartoon Face'. Like The Word 'poetic', Which Usually Means Something Different Than A Poem. But Most Of All Cartoons Are Comforting, That's The Real Reason I Need Them.

I'm Very Interested In Variations.