As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.

Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.