Ultimately, the film [Dream of Life] is inspirational.

I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.

We had a hodgepodge of footage. We didn't film [in Dream of Life ]all the time - we would just film periodically, so nothing was synced and nothing was slated.

A lot of times I had footage that didn't have sound [in the Dream of Life film] - either I didn't bring a sound recorder, or I forgot to turn on the sound recorder - so we would have to improvise and build those scenes.

I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].

It took 12 years to put this film [Dream of Life] together, but it was not until toward the end of those 12 years that I looked at Patti [Smith] and said, "Maybe we should do something with this footage."

The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.