That was an amazing experience [making Dream of Life]. It's hard to imagine that we were editing every day for a year.… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
I would bring Patti [Smith ] in to the editing room [working on the Dream of Life] and say, "This is a… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
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… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
There are a lot of layers in the film [Dream of Life]. And during editing we would try to tame all the… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
Over time it just got more and more intense as far as the trust factor. For example, when we started editing the… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
At the beginning I didn't even really think about making a movie [Dream of Life]. I was just thinking of documenting somebody. — Steven Sebring Copy Share
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… — Steven Sebring Copy Share
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… — Steven Sebring Copy Share
We had a hodgepodge of footage. We didn't film [in Dream of Life ]all the time - we would just film periodically, so nothing… — Steven Sebring Copy Share
I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I was getting… — Steven Sebring Copy Share
I would bring Patti [Smith ] in to the editing room [working on the Dream of Life] and say, "This is a great moment… — Steven Sebring Copy Share
I like not knowing too much about somebody I'm photographing, because the process also becomes an experience for me to learn about . — Steven Sebring Copy Share
Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what it wanted… — Steven Sebring Copy Share
She let me in during her tour, in London. Her band members - especially Lenny Kaye - were shocked at the fact that I… — Steven Sebring Copy Share
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… — Steven Sebring Copy Share
I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them. — Steven Sebring Copy Share
I remember when we were at Sundance, we were in Robert Redford's screening room, and I had never seen the film look so beautiful… — Steven Sebring Copy Share
I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith]. — Steven Sebring Copy Share
Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school. — Steven Sebring Copy Share
I wasn't familiar with Patti [Smith ]much at all. When I was asked to photograph her, my wife said, "Oh my God, Patti Smith!"… — Steven Sebring Copy Share
![“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.” quote by Steven Sebring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/316/steven-sebring-14700_amazing-experience_that-was-an-amazing-experience-making-dr_102805.jpg)
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![“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'll do that." It was a really great experience that way.” quote by Steven Sebring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/steven-sebring-14700_dream_the-editing-process-was-a-free-for-all-a_1036321.jpg)
![“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-out ideas and tame them and make sense of them.” quote by Steven Sebring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9a/steven-sebring-14700_diligent_angelo-corrao-was-our-editor-in-dream-of_1041111.jpg)
![“The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own animal. And I didn't want to tame it, either. I wanted it to be different. It's not your typical documentary.” quote by Steven Sebring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/421/steven-sebring-14700_animal_the-film-dream-of-life-came-together-whe_1512115.jpg)
![“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 understood. We would move scenes around. We'd try all these things.” quote by Steven Sebring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce1/steven-sebring-14700_bits_there-are-a-lot-of-layers-in-the-film-dr_2750128.jpg)
![“Over time it just got more and more intense as far as the trust factor. For example, when we started editing the film [Dream of Life], I thought, man, I need to make sense of all the footage I have; I need to ground the film. And one day I was hanging out in Patti's [Smith] bedroom, which is where…” quote by Steven Sebring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c24/steven-sebring-14700_bedroom_over-time-it-just-got-more-and-more-inte_3200079.jpg)