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

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.

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

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.

Ultimately, the film [Dream of Life] is inspirational.

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

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.