The following conversation is an excerpt from the full interview, featured in the revised edition of Persistence of Vision: A Collection of Film Criticism. Edited by Joseph McBride, the book was first published in 1968 in a limited edition by the Wisconsin Film Society Press, and is now republished by Sticking Place Books. This text appears with permission of the book’s editor, who wrote the introduction to the interview, and in conjunction with the spring edition of our New Book Releases.
