“Do we want to be who it turns out that we are, [or] do we want to try to transform and move through to a different place?”
“To me, you get what you put into it. It’s like with any kind of church: If you have faith, then you’ll believe.”
“Since there’s no front or back row, it’s an experience without a center and without an exterior.”
“If this interview ended and we went and had a beer, you’d be telling us stuff, private stuff about yourself, just ‘cause that’s what we’re interested in.”
“I’ve gotten really good at having a form in my head for something that makes a good 20-minute piece. But it all happens in the moment.”
“It could have been worse. He could have requested a bad song.”
“It’s a good thing to be that recognizable.”
“My parents have a huge cassette tape collection, but it’s all dubbed cassettes; they’re all Maxell cassettes with just a little scribbling.”
“There’s nothing more romantic than being a 15-year-old kid with a backpack and a pair of boots and an acoustic guitar slung over his shoulder jumping on a freight train.”
A retrospective on a fruitful, challenging, and impressive film oeuvre
