Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

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

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.