I think it's very hard to reconcile oneself to the notion that it may not matter what you think if you still want to write.

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

I still do believe that form and content are very much related. I think throwing away some of the rule books on that is a good thing.

I unlearned the model of being an editor like Ezra Pound with T.S. Eliot, the unconscious belief that America was the center of the world, and that honesty meant saying what I thought and always being direct.

Being in Europe had helped me unlearn some of what I'd been taught or unconsciously believed.

When something in a sequence is edited, if you repeat an image, but in a different place, the effect is different. Because the brain is remembering, and the different juxtaposition triggers other memories, thoughts, ideas, and so on.

What I don't like about teaching is hearing myself say the same thing. I mean, you just want to sort of shoot yourself after a while. But you don't have a million different ways of thinking about what you have been thinking about for many years. And then there's the truism that you're only as good as your students. If they're not into what's going on, it doesn't matter who you are.