It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

All art is a kind of confession.

Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.

Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so rare.

There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they have been accused, achieving their vengeance and their own destruction through making the nightmare real.

The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.