Kieslowski on America

From director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Kieslowski on Kieslowski. A cartesian meditation on American cities and highways:

"I'm afraid of America. Whenever I'm in New York I always have the feeling it's going to cave in and all I can think about is how to avoid being there when that happens. The same goes for other places in America. You don't get all those people and all that noise in the streets of California as you do in New York but, in turn, there's a huge number of cars going to and fro and I always have serious doubts as to whether there are any Americans inside. You know, who's inside? I've always got the impression that those cars drive themselves... ."