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

Place means nothing to me. I can be at home anywhere.

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

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

I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

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

I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.