Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

Few ever see what is not already inside their heads.

If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects) — a material vestige of its subject in a way that no painting can be.