Film is the art of turning money into light, and light into money. But it begins with money.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

The fallacy is that you have to hold some sort of stake in the grief or horror in order to write about it - I think the opposite is true.