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].

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 would bring Patti [Smith ] in to the editing room [working on the Dream of Life] and say, "This is a great moment for a voiceover, or a poem," and then we'd bring in some sound design.

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

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

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.

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