A pretty good argument can be made that Julien Temple is more or less the official moviemaker of punk. Among his many credits are films about the Sex Pistols, David Bowie, and Neil Young, and music videos for Gary Numan, the Stray Cats, and the Beat (among many others). There's a growing consensus, however, that Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten, his new documentary about the late lead singer of the Clash, is his finest film. Temple met Strummer when they were both young, and then didn't seem him again for a quarter-century, only to become one of his closest friends in the last decade of his life. In this interview with New York magazine, he discusses how they met, Strummer's musical and philosophical views, and the kind of movie he didn't want to make about his friend. He closes with a deadpan assessment of what Strummer, who died in 2002 of heart failure, would have thought of the film: "I'd like to think he'd strangle me."