I Don't See Poetry As

You Are Confronted With Abysses Of Time That Are, In A Way, Unfathomable. You See A Painting In Charcoal Of Raindeer And It Was Left Unfinished And Somebody Else Finished It. But Through Radio Carbon Dating We Know That The Next One Completed The Painting 5,000 Years Later. You're Just Blown Away By The Notion Of Passage Of Time. We Have No Relationship To That Kind Of Depth Of Time.

Some Of The Most Important Caves, Like Lascaux In The Dordogne Region In France, Have Had To Be Closed Down. There Had Been Too Many People Allowed In, And They Left A Mold On The Walls That Is Spreading And Which Can't Really Be Stopped.

With Actors, Normally I Don't Like To Have Any Conversation About Background And About Motivations And All This.

May I Propose A Herzog Dictum? Those Who Read Own The World, And Those Who Watch Television Lose It.

One Of The Most Original And Poetic Works Of Cinema Made Anywhere In The Seventies.