Everything Is Not Laden With Potential For

[kenneth Koch] Taught Us To Be Playful, To Be Very Appreciative Of Other Poets, To Appreciate All Forms Of Expression. He Taught Us To Be Experimental.

Separate Two Particles, Place Them At Opposite Ends Of The Universe, Produce Some Effect In One, And The Other Will Be Identically Affected.

Music, To Me, Is The Most Beautiful Form, And I Love Film Because Film Is Very Related To Music. It Moves By You In Its Own Rhythm. It's Not Like Reading A Book Or Looking At A Painting. It Gives You Its Own Time Frame, Like Music, So They Are Very Connected For Me. But Music To Me Is The Biggest Inspiration. When I Get Depressed, Or Anything, I Go "think Of All The Music I Haven't Even Heard Yet!" So, It's The One Thing. Imagine The World Without Music. Man, Just Hand Me A Gun, Will You?

I Start With Actors That I Know Personally Or I Know Their Work, And There Are Things About Their Work Or Their Presence Or Their Own Personality That Make A Character, That Exaggerates Some Qualities And Suppresses Other Qualities. It's Always A Real Collaboration For Me.

Some People Would Find Just The Rhythm Of My Films Alone To Be A Nightmare; They'd Probably Just Fall Asleep Because They Want Something Quicker. Other People Fall Into It And It Works For Them Like A Dream.