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

I became Patti's [Smith] messenger, basically, and the film is my view of how I learned about Patti.

There are a lot of layers in the film [Dream of Life]. And during editing we would try to tame all the layers, try to make things a little bit more understood. We would move scenes around. We'd try all these things.

The only self-consciousness in the film [Dream of Life] is anyone's natural shyness.

Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film.

She let me in during her tour, in London. Her band members - especially Lenny Kaye - were shocked at the fact that I was filming Patti [Smith].

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.