I'm Like A Navigator And I Try

I Like That Cartoons Are Now Not Only Animated Drawings, They Are A Way Of Doing Something: 'that Song Sounds Very Cartoony', Or 'he Has A Cartoon Face'. Like The Word 'poetic', Which Usually Means Something Different Than A Poem. But Most Of All Cartoons Are Comforting, That's The Real Reason I Need Them.

A Lot Of Poets Too Live On The Margins Of Social Acceptance, They Certainly Aren't In It For The Money. William Blake - Only His First Book Was Legitimately Published.

Those Of Us Who Make Films Try To Make Something That We're Feeling And That We Would Like. Then We Just Hope An Audience Responds The Same Way. It's Very Important To Have The Electrical Circuit Made, But I Don't Have Control Over How People Feel When They Flip The Switch. So The Whole Idea Of Marketing Research And Test Screenings Is Just Foreign To Me.

I'd Wanted To Be A Writer And When I Came Back To New York Worked As A Musician Too, But I Found My Writing Starting To Get More And More Referential To Cinema.

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.