All Our Thinking Constitutes The New World,

Alpha-60: Your Name Is Written "ivan Johnson," But It Is Pronounced "lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three Of The Outlands. You Are A Threat To The Security Of Alphaville. Caution: I Refuse To Become What You Call "normal." ... Alpha-60: You Cannot Escape. The Door Is Locked. Caution: Try To Stop Me, Pal.

I Like The Idea Of Making Films About Ostensibly Absolutely Nothing. I Like The Irrelevant, The Tangential, The Sidebar Excursion To Nowhere That Suddenly Becomes Revelatory. That's What All My Movies Are About. That And The Idea That We're In Possession Of Certainty, Truth, Infallible Knowledge, When Actually We're Just A Bunch Of Apes Running Around. My Films Are About People Who Think They're Connected To Something, Although They're Really Not.

There Is No More Discovery. Not Since The Beginning Of This Century. There Are New Gadgets. New Important Gadgets.

I'm Franco-swiss. I've Always Been Shuttling Between These Two Worlds, Never Firmly Planted In Either One.

I've Always Wanted, Basically, To Do Research In The Form Of A Spectacle.