Connected

The only way to be creative is to try everything. We learn by making mistakes. We must be critical of ourselves and have the courage to start all over again after each failure. Only then do we really absorb, really start to know.

He was obsessed with change...I think it was a state of perpetual optimism.

Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America into film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world.

Bruce connected to (Robert) Frank's work at first sight; like John Ford's 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'The Americans' depicted the world he saw when he shut his eyes.

He uses words "like brushstrokes", he says.