“The strength of montage resides in this, that it includes in the creative process the emotions and mind of the spectator. The spectator is compelled to proceed along that selfsame path that the author traveled in creating the image.

“From one flick of the mare’s tail came an unending stream of images out of which was crystallised the milky way.”

David Larcher

“Rather than being our own, the labors of our days are merely a series of things we are made to do by those outside ourselves. We live lives that are even more evanescent than the bubbles floating along the stream – and even more meaningless.

Pourquoi le film se déroule-t-il en Belgique ?

“In 1954 I was an assistant stage manager in New York and in the same year l finished my first film, The Night Holds Terror. In 1955 I acted in thirty-seven live television shows; in 1956 l did five; in 1957 I made three movies, including a good one called Edge of the City.

“Want de literator is niets menselijks vreemd en de film, als de meest realistische, de meest verwarrende magisch-realistische kunst, heeft een werkelijkheid van de tweede graad geschapen waarover de literator zal schrijven als uit een reeds een eerste maal gepuurde levenssubstantie: ze is leven

“My hatred for the bourgeoisie is not documentable or arguable. It’s just there and that’s it. But it’s not a moralistic condemnation; it is total and unmitigated, but it is based on passion, not on moralism.