In a meadow full of flowers you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry of life.

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy's and her sister Lee Radziwill's families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship.

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

For an artist, to be normal is a disaster

I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.

I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager.