I love painting and music, of course. I dont know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. Ive certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didnt read it until I was in my late 20s. – Kenneth Koch
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. – Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907
I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And its hard to express and its hard to execute but I think it works on every level – the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on. – Michel Gondry
