À propos de la notion de scénario : "I do not work from scripts normally. What there are are a series of texts written for different purposes beforehand. In this case [ : Starting Place], there are 3 or 4 such texts, indicating intentions, scope of the project, the reflexion behind, etc., and also showing a certain development in my thinking. [...] None of this fits easily into the idea of "script". I don't like them and I don't normally produce them, either for the "fictions" or the "documentaries", yet another species of category in which I don't find much confort." (Extrait d'une lettre de Robert Kramer à la Margaret Herrick Library, octobre 1996, 344KRM/199/15). C'est pourquoi, sous les termes usuels de "note d'intention", de "scénario" ou de "traitement" employés ici pour la description des dossiers d'écriture des films, se trouveront souvent des textes dont la liberté de forme illustre cette conception personnelle.