Each One Of Us Is A Set

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 Know From The Past, Critics Often Say My Films Don't Have Any Plot, That Kind Of Thing. I'm Used To Being Told, "yeah, It's Slow And Has No Plot."

For Me Music Is Totally Freeing, And It's Its' Own Language Too. You Follow It, In A Way.

Each One Of Us Is A Set Of Shifting Molecules, Spinning In Ecstasy.

A Lot Of Innovation In Language Comes From Poetry.