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."