Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

As industrialization provided social uses for the operations of the photographer, so the reaction against these uses reinforced the self-consciousness of photography-as-art.

If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism