If Anyone Tells You There

America Was Built On An Attempted Genocide, Anyway. Guns Were Completely Necessary.

I Am Interested In The Non-dramatic Moments In Life. I`m Not At All Attracted To Making Films That Are About Drama. A Few Years Back, I Saw A Biopic About A Famous American Abstract Expressionist Artist. And You Know What? It Really Horrified Me.

I Visited Paterson Many Years Ago - 20 Some Years Ago As A Kind Of Day Trip Because Of William Carlos Williams, Because Of Allen Ginsberg Having Lived There. And I Went To The Great Falls And Sat Really In The Exact Same Spot As Adam Driver Does As Paterson. And I Walked Around The Factory Buildings, And I Was Rereading - I Was Reading At The Time The Epic Length Poem "paterson" By Williams.

My Films Are About The Little Things That Happen Between People That Are Sometimes Far More Valuable And Insightful Than The Big Dramatic Things That Happen.

I Thought The Limits Of Control Could Be Interpreted In Two Ways: As The Limits Of One's Self-control; And As The Limits Of Allowing Other People's Control Over One's - Consciousness - Which I Kind Of Thought Was A Double Meaning That Was Appropriate.