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

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 was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.

Art is a sense of magic.

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

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.

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