The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

All societies end up wearing masks.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.