I'm Not Putting Down Anyone That Does

I Love Silent Films. The Future Is Unwritten.

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.

[kenneth Koch] Taught Children In Public Schools In New York City To Write Poems And Told Them Down Worry About Rhyming, Don't Worry About Any Of That Stuff. You Know, Write A Poem Where You Mention Three Colors And Make It Five Lines - Or He Would Just Give Them, You Know, Little Strategies. And, Man, They Wrote Some Great Poems.

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

Select Only Things To Steal That Speak Directly To Your Soul. If You Do This, Your Work (and Theft) Will Be Authentic. Authenticity Is Invaluable; Originality Is Nonexistent