For me, moving from photography to film was very easy.

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

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

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.

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

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

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.