Both cinematic culture and the culture at large have changed profoundly. We're now in post-cinematic digital culture, and the internet has obviously usurped movies, which are no longer central to our lives, at least not as a collective spectator experience.

Love has been the ontological pattern for me. And also the withholding pattern.

I am as much what I am because of what I still don't have as I am because of what I have had and what I might still have one day.

One of the liberating things about having a blog is the total vision it allows.

You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

Quotes are like prompts. A way of searching, connecting the dots.