00:00I stay in bed till 11.45, and then I put my clothes on.
00:06I thought you hadn't taken them off.
00:09Oh, I guess I didn't, I just lied.
00:17And I go downstairs to buy cigarettes, and I break a $10 bill because the cigarettes are 56 cents.
00:23God, they are.
00:24And I say, is Allen Ginsberg there? And he says, who's calling?
00:31And I say, it's Peter Hujar. I'm supposed to photograph you, the Times.
00:39If I get my camera stuff together, I had a flash that there was something sort of bohemian poet about it,
00:44and I'd be much snazzier in my red ski jacket.
00:46Oh, good choice, yes.
00:47I just think it's more like Lower East Side.
00:49I photographed Ginsberg, and he sits down in the lotus position, looking very Buddha,
00:58right in the doorway, and he starts to chant.
01:01And I really think, well, I can't interrupt God.
01:07But I realize that to do good portraits, I have to, like, have the time to really look at it,
01:12really see what I'm doing.
01:14Sometimes I just stand and stare at it, and it's even rather pleasurable.
01:17I often have a feeling that in my day, nothing much happens, that I've wasted it.
01:25Well, now you know.
01:26I've wasted another day.
01:32That's why I'm doing this, actually, to find out how people fill up their days.
01:44That's what happened. That's the way it happened.
01:47That's what happened.
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