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My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.