I quickly realized that Patti [Smith] was somebody very special.

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted to be in the editing room.

I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors.

I know in this day and age, when you meet men, they often want to be boys. They dress like boys. And it's very confusing. I can't offer any solution except to make a movie about it.

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

Food is life, life is food. If you don't like my approach you are welcome to go down to McDonalds.

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf.

A little more money won't do you any good - because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount.

I was even surprised when in Spa Kimi said to me, ‘Congratulations on your son's birth!’ this is only thing Kimi said to me in two years.