Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.
Susan SontagThe public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.
Susan SontagCompassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question is what to do with the feelings that have been aroused, the knowledge that has been communicated. People don't become inured to what they are shown — if that's the right way to describe what happens — because of the quantity of images dumped on them. It is passivity that dulls feeling.
Susan SontagThe fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
Susan Sontag