A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

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

It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt

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

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.