We just grew to trust each other [with Patti Smith] more and more over the years. Most of the time I didn't even have a movie camera.

[Some] times I'd have sound but no image. When Patti [Smith] was singing with her guitar, or doing something amazing with her clarinet, I'd just mess around and record the sound. So we'd use those sounds as another layer in the film [Dream of Life].

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

I think those moments in Patti's [Smith] bedroom really helped the film [Dream of Life] out, and those moments existed because of the trust between us. There isn't any real self-consciousness in the film because we all like each other.

That was an amazing experience [making Dream of Life]. It's hard to imagine that we were editing every day for a year. And it was pretty extraordinary; it also went by super fast. But every day was an experiment.

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

I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments.