I'm Not Putting Down Anyone

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.

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.

One Of Our Favorite Joe Strummer Quotes Was, "no Input, No Output." Meaning, We're Going To Hear A Band, We're Going To Go To A Museum, Or We're Going To Go Hang Out With Some Writer That We Admire. We're Going To Get Some Input, Because If We Don't, Then We Have Nothing. It's A Circle. It's A Respiratory Thing.

I Think We Need To Sort Of Broaden Our Definition Of Poetry, Which Maybe It's A Good Thing That They Just Gave This Nobel Prize To [bob] Dylan Because Blurring The Lines Of Song Lyrics And Also Hip-hop For Me Is Like Some Of The Greatest Uses - Most Innovative Uses Of Language In My Lifetime.

I Like All Forms Of Movies. I'm A Movie Geek, So I Watch All Kinds Of Films, But - And I Read All Kinds Of Things, Too. But The Poetry That Speaks To Me The Most Directly Will Contain Mundane Things, Will Contain Details.