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There Is Something Very Pleasurable About Watching Cartoons, A Really Warm, Comfortable Feeling. My Taste Is Quite Broad, But Most Of All I Like American Cartoons. Early Disney, Betty Boop, Roadrunner, Ren & Stimpy, South Park. Sometimes I'll Watch Pokemon Or Bad 80s Cartoons.

I Wanted To Make An Indian Character Who Wasn't Either A) The Savage That Must Be Eliminated, The Force Of Nature That's Blocking The Way For Industrial Progress, Or B) The Noble Innocent That Knows All And Is Another Cliche. I Wanted Him To Be A Complicated Human Being.

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.

America Is A Very Venal Place; Everything Has To Be Sold There. You Can Repackage Your Own S**t And Sell It If It Is Marketed In The Right Way. The Motivation Is To Sell. It's So Illogical And Strange To Me. It's Such A Disposable Culture And Yet I Feel Comfortable Being American.

I Like Actors Who Just Become That Person And Then React, And Adam [driver] Is Completely Reactive In That Way. So Every Day Working With Him Was Really A Pleasure. And He's In Almost Every Scene In The Film, So The Poor Guy Had To Work The - Almost The Entire 30 Days Of Our Film Shoot. But, Yeah, He Was Really A Pleasure, And I Really Love What He - How He Embodied This Character.