Just Write A Poem As If You're

Those Of Us Who Make Films Try To Make Something That We're Feeling And That We Would Like. Then We Just Hope An Audience Responds The Same Way. It's Very Important To Have The Electrical Circuit Made, But I Don't Have Control Over How People Feel When They Flip The Switch. So The Whole Idea Of Marketing Research And Test Screenings Is Just Foreign To Me.

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.

I Never Start With The Story First, Which Is Maybe Obvious, Because The Narrative Line Of My Films Is Really Not That Strong Or Dramatic. They're Very Simple.

I Love John Ashbery. He's The - Really The Poet Laureate Of English Language Poetry, Whether He's Given That Or Not, He Is To Me.

I'd Wanted To Be A Writer And When I Came Back To New York Worked As A Musician Too, But I Found My Writing Starting To Get More And More Referential To Cinema.