Before She Married My Father,

I Still Consider Myself To Be An Amateur Filmmaker. And I Say That Because In The Latin Origin Of The Word Amateur Is The Word Love, And It's Love Of A Form, Whereas Professional Implies Something You Do For Money Or For Work.

The Limits Of Control Is Not Surrealism, But It Is An Experiment In Which Expectations Are Deliberately Removed: Expectations For Narrative Form, For Action In A Film, For Certain Emotional Content. We Wanted To Remove Those Things And See If We Could Still Make A Film That Was A Beautiful Film Experience, With Deliberately Removing Things Many People Would Expect.

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.

I Consider Myself A Feminist, In A Way.

Just Write A Poem As If You're Writing A Note To One Other Person.