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

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

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

[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….

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]..

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

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school..

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..

The editing process was a free-for-all, and since I hadn't gone to film [Dream of Life] school or anything like that, I just said, "We'll do this. We….

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….

I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I was getting that through Patti [Smith] - beca….

There are a lot of layers in the film [Dream of Life]. And during editing we would try to tame all the layers, try to make things a little bit more u….

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

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

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

When I started photographing Patti [Smith], I knew that there wasn't a whole a lot of information out there about her. I was periodically interested ….

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

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-….

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 ….

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

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