A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope an audience responds the same way. It's very important to have the electrical circuit made, but I don't have control over how people feel when they flip the switch. So the whole idea of marketing research and test screenings is just foreign to me.

My films are about the little things that happen between people that are sometimes far more valuable and insightful than the big dramatic things that happen.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

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

I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.

Domesticity is a fact of how social structure works. So if you say, "Well being domestic as a female is a negative trait," then that would be like saying, "Having a family - because that's an economic unit designed to further the economic structures in the world - if you have a family then you're subjugated."