"I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way."

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"I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way."

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"Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision."

Vision

"I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there."

Literature

"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."

Film

"I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues."

Friendship

"A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published."

Money

"It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things."

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"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

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"Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy."

Contradiction

"Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper."

Family

"I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it."

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