Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

Adversity is a stimulus.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Life is adventure, not predicament.

Consciousness is the glory of creation.