Each One Of Us Is A Set

When I Studied With Nicholas Ray He Was Always Telling Us, "if You Want To Make Films, Watch A Lot Of Films, But Don't Just Watch Films, Go Take A Walk, Look At The Sky, Read A Book About Meteorology, Look At The Design Of People's Shoes. Because All Of Them Are Part Of Filmmaking." So I Thought, Perfect! That's A Good Job For Me.

I Prefer To Be Subcultural Rather Than Mass-cultural. I'm Not Interested In Hitting The Vein Of The Mainstream.

One Of Our Favorite Joe Strummer Quotes Was, "no Input, No Output." Meaning, We're Going To Hear A Band, We're Going To Go To A Museum, Or We're Going To Go Hang Out With Some Writer That We Admire. We're Going To Get Some Input, Because If We Don't, Then We Have Nothing. It's A Circle. It's A Respiratory Thing.

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

I Went To Graduate Film School At Nyu, And At First I Didn't Get A Degree, Because I Took A Scholarship That Was Supposed To Pay My Tuition, And I Used It To Make A Film. For The Longest Time, I Never Actually Graduated. And About 70 Percent Of The Things I Learned There I Had To Unlearn, But 30 Percent Was Really Valuable. It's Like Mark Twain Said, "don't Let School Get In The Way Of Your Education."