[iggi Pop] Is Very Self-taught, Self-educated, But,

I Even Think The Commercial Element Of New American Directors Is Really Fertile Right Now. There Are A Lot Of Filmmakers With Very Particular Visions, Like Sofia Coppola And Wes Anderson And P.t. Anderson And Alexander Payne And Peter Sollett And Harmony Korine And Vincent Gallo. At Least They're Making Films That They Choose To Make, And They're On Their Own. That's Positive To Me. This Is Not A Dead Period For American Cinema At All.

The Filmmaker Amos Poe Was A Huge Inspiration For Me By Making Guerrilla-style Punk Films On The Streets Of New York And - Well, It's Just A Lot Of Painters And Artists And Filmmakers All Within That Scene, And It's Very, Very Important To Me.

I Love Riding On A Bus Now Because You're Looking Down On The World From Not Too High Of An Angle, But People On The Street Rarely Look Up Into The Bus. They're Sort Of Oblivious To This Big Giant Machine, You Know, Passing By. So There's Something Very Beautiful About The Angle That You Look At The World Through.

I Always Think The Sex Pistols And The Ramones As Very, Very Important Because They Stripped Things Down.

Domesticity Is A Fact Of How Social Structure Works. So If You Say, "well Being Domestic As A Female Is A Negative Trait," Then That Would Be Like Saying, "having A Family - Because That's An Economic Unit Designed To Further The Economic Structures In The World - If You Have A Family Then You're Subjugated."