I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

Stupid f***ing white man.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

If you have a counterculture band, you put a name on it, you call them beatniks, and you can sell something - books or bebop. Or you label them as hippies and you can sell tie-dyed T-shirts.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.