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.

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

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

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

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.

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

After wishing for years to be given-the-opportunity of filming some of the more 'mystical' occupations of our Times - some of the more obscure Public Figures which the average imagination turns into 'bogeymen'... viz.: Policemen, Doctors, Soldiers, Politicians, etc.: - I was at last permitted to ride in a Pittsburgh police car, camera in hand, the final several days of September 1970.