One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.

Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents takes place. For those who are behind the curtain, landmarks are no longer only geographic but also biographical and personal

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.