Years later, in a conversation with Alexander Kluge, he will tell how he, Edgar Reitz, the son of a watchmaker, thought about time even as a child. If you want to watch the passage of time, you have to look away from the imperceptibly slow moving clock hands and look at the world. And if you want to capture them in this crime, there is only one medium: film.
Filmmaker Edgar Reitz is ninety: From the depths of time – culture
