I never went to film school, so I just sort of learned on my own.

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

Fashion's been really good to me. It financed Patti Smith: Dream of Life.

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.

We had a hodgepodge of footage. We didn't film [in Dream of Life ]all the time - we would just film periodically, so nothing was synced and nothing was slated.

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

The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own animal. And I didn't want to tame it, either. I wanted it to be different. It's not your typical documentary.