Each One Of Us Is

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 Think People Should Have The Right To Bear Arms, But They Should Be Limited As To What Kinds Of Guns They Can Have.

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."

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.

Now In The States If You Look At The Tv, You See The Advertisements, The Tv Programmes, The Pop Videos, And The Movies, They're All The Same Style. I Think It's Very Condescending To The Audience To Assume They Only Have A Three Second Attention Span And So They Don't Leave Anything On The Screen For Any Longer. I Don't Understand That.