Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he looked at editing. He would take my far-out ideas and tame them and make sense of them.

I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about .

For me to see the film [Dream of Life] on a big screen - it's pretty extraordinary.

I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments.

The editing process was a free-for-all, and since I hadn't gone to film [Dream of Life] school or anything like that, I just said, "We'll do this. We'll do that." It was a really great experience that way.

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.