“So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.”
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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.
The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.
Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.