I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

You're closer to your glory leaping an abyss than re-upholstering a rut.

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.