Steven Sebring

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

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

— Steven Sebring

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

We had a hodgepodge of footage. We didn't film [in Dream of Life ]all the time - we would just film periodically,…

— Steven Sebring

I thought about how to film something, how to take pictures of it and how to mix it all together. And I…

— Steven Sebring

I would bring Patti [Smith ] in to the editing room [working on the Dream of Life] and say, "This is a…

— Steven Sebring

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

Because the filming process was so organic and there was no script, the film [Dream of Life] was literally telling us what…

— Steven Sebring

She let me in during her tour, in London. Her band members - especially Lenny Kaye - were shocked at the fact…

— Steven Sebring

Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a…

— Steven Sebring

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

— Steven Sebring

I remember when we were at Sundance, we were in Robert Redford's screening room, and I had never seen the film look…

— Steven Sebring

I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].

— Steven Sebring

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

— Steven Sebring

I wasn't familiar with Patti [Smith ]much at all. When I was asked to photograph her, my wife said, "Oh my God,…

— Steven Sebring

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

— Steven Sebring

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

— Steven Sebring

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

— Steven Sebring

It took 12 years to put this film [Dream of Life] together, but it was not until toward the end of those…

— Steven Sebring

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

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

[Through the making of Dream of Life] I learned about being patient, perseverance, having a dream, a goal. I learned that I…

— Steven Sebring

[Some] times I'd have sound but no image. When Patti [Smith] was singing with her guitar, or doing something amazing with her…

— Steven Sebring

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

— Steven Sebring

The film [Dream of Life] came together when we started editing; it was organic, it became nonlinear and it was its own…

— Steven Sebring