The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

I have made 70 or so films. In all my films not a single actor, a single extra, was hurt. Not one. So statistics are on my side when I say I'm clinically sane.

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory.

My non-fiction films are pretty much fiction, or at least close... It's all "movies" for me. I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

One of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies.