At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.

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

Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal.

A lot of times I had footage that didn't have sound [in the Dream of Life film] - either I didn't bring a sound recorder, or I forgot to turn on the sound recorder - so we would have to improvise and build those scenes.

At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody.

I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].

I came up with more money, took all the footage, got a great editor and made this film [Dream of Life]. But I really didn't go into it with the intention of making a movie.