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.

I'm not an analytical person, so it's not my job to even know what the hell the thing meant. It's not my problem. I'm just supposed to do it. Sometimes, people have explained things to me that I might have been semi-conscious of or not.

I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him to be working class. Eventually I thought a bus was a perfect visual way to move him, to drift him through the city, to have a measured kind of routine lifestyle. And all these things kind of congealed into the film "Paterson" eventually.

For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

Separate two particles, place them at opposite ends of the universe, produce some effect in one, and the other will be identically affected.

I'm very interested in variations.

As soon as you start making a film that's expensive then the studio wants total control over all elements of it because they want to get all their money back. If you make a smaller film you can try a lot more things because you can have control over it and not just be a hired director. The lower the budget the more freedom you have.