When I Hear The Word

It's Hard To Get Lost If You Don't Know Where You're Going.

I Wanted To Make An Indian Character Who Wasn't Either A) The Savage That Must Be Eliminated, The Force Of Nature That's Blocking The Way For Industrial Progress, Or B) The Noble Innocent That Knows All And Is Another Cliche. I Wanted Him To Be A Complicated Human Being.

[kenneth Koch] Taught Us To Be Playful, To Be Very Appreciative Of Other Poets, To Appreciate All Forms Of Expression. He Taught Us To Be Experimental.

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.

You Are The Accumulations Of Your Experiences At Any Given Point. And When You Express Something Those Things Come Out. The Thing Is I Hate Seeing My Films When I'm Done With Them, So I Don't Look Back As A Chart Of My Life, But I Leave It As A Kind Of Chart. Though, It Is A Photograph, Captured.