The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

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.

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.