We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.

Art is a sense of magic.

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.

Artists are mostly shits of the worst order. You wouldn't want one living next door to you. Think about it: Vincent Van Gogh living next door, coming over to borrow your ear and a cup of sugar every morning-Good God!

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.