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

Art is a form of consciousness.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.

I'm more cautious about what I write.

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.