I do not believe in the Cinema verite. Sometimes a really good lie is better than any truth.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

At the end [when I speak about] magma under us everywhere, how it's monumentally indifferent to scurrying roaches, recoiled reptiles, and vapid humans alike. You see, you would never hear anything like that in a National Geographic or a PBS movie. This is clearly a transgression when it comes to being politically correct with your commentary.

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

You can fight a rumour only with an even wilder rumour.

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are the most horrifying, cannibalistic and nightmarish creatures in the world.