"I hade written a script after Permanent Vacation that I was trying to get produced, and I had written a part for [Eszter Balint], but I was never able to get the money together to make it. And then instead, through circumstances, I made Stranger Than Paradise. But I had written something already - a different character and story - specifically for Eszter. That was a film that I had also written one of the main characters for John Lurie." [in Belsito, Notes from the Pop Underground, 1984]