An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.

You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time.

There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses.

My films are the celebration of reality, of life, of my friends, of actual daily life that passes and is gone tomorrow. We don't pay attention to it when it happens.

Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.

Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing. Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order.