Joel Rogers interviewed Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet on two occasions in the fall of 1975, once during the New York Film Festival where they screened MOSES AND AARON, and again when they Passed through New York on the return leg of their month-long tour of the United States. The interview was published in Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, no. 12/13, 1976, pp. 61-64  » read more

In an interview with Robert Schoen that was published in a film magazine in Giessen Jean-Marie Straub is explicitely referring to Gilles Deleuze: "Deleuze knows a lot of films by us but only 15 years later he was speaking at a conference in the film school in Paris, when he said: 'Art is resistance against communication'. And he talked only about our films. I think, this is true -- at least as a provocation, if not more... We knew exactly that our films, each of them, was a little war machine against esperanto."